Studying Bee Cognition in the Lab (IMAGE)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Studying Bee Cognition in the Lab

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To understand how floral characteristics can combine to influence the decisions bumblebees make about which flowers to visit, Robert Gegear, assistant professor of biology and biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), had bees forage on arrays of paper representations of typical "hummingbird flowers" (red coloration, horizontal orientation) and "bee flowers" (lavender or blue coloration, upright orientation).

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Robert Gegear, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

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