Social information use across trophic guilds: foraging bumble bees learn from lady beetles
Marie L. Muñiz, B. Meadows, Pablo Lopez, Elinor M. Lichtenberg
This study shows bumble bees can learn to use lady beetles as social information sources for nectar availability, but do not innately recognize them or generalize learning to food absence.
Behavioral Ecology · Feb 24, 2026Peer-reviewedAnimal Behavior & Cognition