Bumblebees Get by With a Little Help from Their Honeybee Rivals

Bumblebees Get by With a Little Help from Their Honeybee Rivals

Reference- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120214121854.htm

Summary- Bumblebees can use cues from their rivals the honeybees to learn where the best food resources are. They found that bumblebees were able to learn the information from honeybees just as efficiently as when the information came out from their own species. Demonstrating that social learning is not a unique process limited members of the same species. The results show that information learned from other species can be just as valuable to an animal like the bumblebee as information from their own species. Bees would have opportunities to learn cues from their own species and other species to an equal degree in the wild. As they often share the same flower species as their source of food.

Critique- The bumblebees learned from honeybees just as efficiently as when the information came out from their own species.

Impact- The bumblebees and honeybees learned from each other where the best food sources are. As now they often share the same flower species as their source of food.