Revisiting Aristotle's observation on bees: High floral constancy is common among bees but it is shaped by the locally abundant flowering species
Saket Shrotri, Sukhraj Kaur, Viraj Nawge, S Sandhya, Rohan Dandavate, Vinita Gowda
The paper investigates floral constancy in bees, finding that they are constant to locally abundant species rather than landscape-wide abundances.
bioRxiv · Oct 28, 2024 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition