Daniel R. Papaj

This study tests Osgood's model of learning by examining how stimulus and response similarity affect memory transfer and interference in bumble bees foraging on artificial flowers.

This study shows that bumble bees prefer to switch flower colors while keeping their handling tactics, but switch tactics when colors are very different and they have experience with legitimate visitation.

This study examines how preference and switching behavior relate in bumble bees, finding that generalist bees switch more between flower species than specialists, even after accounting for statistical effects.