The effect of individual learning on collective foraging in honey bees in complex environments

摘要: Abstract The trade-off between exploiting known resources and exploring for new ones is a complex decision-making challenge, particularly when resource patches are variable in quality heterogeneously distributed the landscape. Social insect colonies navigate this absence of centralized control, by allocating different individuals to each these tasks based on variation individual behavior. To investigate how heritable differences learning affect colony’s collective ability locate choose among food resources, we develop an agent model test its predictions using two genetic lines honey bees, selected their Here show that, paradoxically, containing that better at ignore unrewarding stimuli worse choosing highest level. This work highlights importance within groups emergence