A Great Blue Heron steps through shallow water with wings raised, balancing as it searches the edge of the reeds for movement below the surface.

#WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #manitoba #GreatBlueHeron #WadingBird #Wetlands #ForagingBehavior

Sexual dimorphism in pollen foraging and sensory traits in Heliconius butterflies
#Invertebrate #ForagingBehavior

doi.org/10.1093/behe...

And there’s more! 🧐 Dr. Elinor Lichtenberg’s latest preprint explores how bumble bees use social cues from unexpected sources—nectaring lady beetles! 🐞🌸

🔗 Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Bees #foragingbehavior #animalbehavior

New article published in Scientific's Section
Exotic plant as a new resource: first report of social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) foraging on carpel discs of noni fruit (Morinda citrifolia L.) in northeast Brazil
doi: doi.org/10.12741/ebr...
#Caatingabiome #cheesefruit #Epiponini #foragingbehavior

Bees wearing tiny QR codes reveal amazing details about their daily lives: Researchers have attached tiny QR codes to hundreds of honey bees in an effort to track the insects' foraging habits.

#BeeResearch #QRcodeTracking #ForagingBehavior #PollinatorStudies #TechInScience #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap

New article published in Scientific's Section
Exotic plant as a new resource: first report of social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) foraging on carpel discs of noni fruit (Morinda citrifolia L.) in northeast Brazil
doi: doi.org/10.12741/ebr...
#Caatingabiome #cheesefruit #Epiponini #foragingbehavior

New research article! 📰

Porras-Brenes and Amador-Vargas investigated how carrying oversized loads affects leafcutter ants’ antennae-ground tapping 🎒
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000...

#LeafcutterAnts #ForagingBehavior #SensoryEcology #LoadCarrying #AnimalBehavior #Atta #Antennae #ForagingTrail