Bumblebees learn to use antennal and tarsal taste to predict the presence of nectar rewards in flowers Learning cues such as tastes associated with palatable food is an important mechanism animals have for foraging optimally. Insects can use gustatory receptor neurons (GRNs) in their mouthparts to dete...

🚨New paper out by Harrap et al. in @jexpbiol.bsky.social " #Bumblebees learn to use antennal and tarsal taste to predict the presence of nectar rewards in flowers"
↘️ journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... ↙️ #gustation #insects #cognition

Perception of food texture #mouthfeel and #gustation are intimately intertwined! In Drosophila, these two sensations are apparently integrated at the level of the receptor cell! #ChemSenses