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    Foraging performance of honeybee (Apis mellifera) affected by food richness and experience
    (Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-08-29) Sharif, Muhammad Zahid; Xue, Renjie; Puswa, Sabah Mushtaq
    For honeybees (Apis mellifera), food richness and experience have significant impacts on making foraging decisions. Bees that trace food-rich source they start establishing spatiotemporal memories, which assist them in revisit the particular site on following days. The present study explored whether different levels of food richness (10%, 30%, and 50% sugar solution, and unrewarding situation) at a feeding source affect the number of forager bees for their visitation and how the previous experiences affect bees for their foraging duration. More bees persist visiting food-rich sources. However, the diminution in food richness consequence a gradual decline in the number of bees, but they persistently visiting feeding sites for several days, even if unrewarded with food-rich sources. Regardless of comparison with the bees visiting a low sugar solution, the number of bees visiting higher sugar solution decreases with the time. The foraging efficiency of bees in terms of trip duration also increased with the experiences of previous visits. In conclusion, bees exhibit considerable attachment with experienced feeding sites that stop providing food anymore, and the duration of the foraging trip decreases with the experience (19 to 2 min one-way trip for 251 m distance). We, in our current findings, confer the implications for future investigation on the research gap concerning the altering foraging situations.