Abilities of honey bees Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 and paper wasps Vespula spp. (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Vespidae) to situational learning

Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень

Ya.A. Terehov¹  V.M. Kartsev²  O.V. Ryzhkova³ 

[1] Lomonosov Moscow State University;M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University;Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

关键词: Hymenoptera;    Apidae;    Vespidae;    honey bee;    Apis mellifera;    paper wasps;    Vespula spp.;    cognition;    situational learning;   

DOI  :  DOI:10.23885/1814-3326-2015-11-1-91-97

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In field experiments, an insect was trained to choose one of two visually different figures – A or B – in reference to situation (“situational learning”). Bees and wasps were shown to be able: 1) to choose A and to reject B at one location (place) of presentation of test figures and vice versa at the other location (at  a distance of 1–8  m); 2) to choose A and to reject B at C-colored background and vice versa at D-colored background (at constant location). It is the first evidence of bees’ ability to make decisions depending on background color and the first evidence of wasps’ ability to perform situational learning. The described behaviors resemble “conditioned switching”, which is well known in vertebrates. Statistically significant individual differences between conspecifics have been recorded

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