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Fig. 8. Experiment 5. Scent-triggered navigation in individual bees, trained
alternately to a yellow rose-scented and a blue lemon-scented feeder. The
positions of the feeders were randomly varied on the perimeter of a circular
area (diameter 10 m), to train bees to the colours of the feeders rather than
then positions. Pie charts show distribution of visits to two empty,
unscented, but coloured test feeders when the respective scents were blown
into the hive (yellow, yellow test feeder; blue, blue test feeder). (A) Test
feeders were placed 10 m apart, at diametrically opposite positions on the
circle perimeter. (B) Test feeders were placed next to each other. In each
case, data are accumulated from four tests for each scent. For A results are
shown separately for first visits, circlings, landings and total visits, while
for B only total visits could be registered. The number of individually marked
bees that visited both test feeders, the number of choices (N), and
P-values for tests of significant difference between the two feeders
when the respective scents were blown (Chi2 Test) are shown below
the pie charts.
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