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

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

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 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

Social information use across trophic guilds Animals use social information gathered by observing other individuals to adjust their behavior to better match the environment and improve fitness. Many insects use social information in various cont...

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

What is it like to be a bee? These tiny QR tracking tags helped science find out Researchers have attached tiny QR codes to hundreds of honey bees in an effort to track the insects' foraging habits.

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