Success of fast pickups

2005/11/14 Roa Zubia, Guillermo - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Zoologia

When collecting the nectar, what is the best strategy for the bee, stay in all the flowers that are close by, or carefully analyze each flower to decide where it will be? In Canada, a group of ecologists from the University of Toronto have conducted a test and opted for the first strategy. If the bees stay in all the flowers of the area, although sometimes there are no nectars, in the long run they accumulate more nectar than when they examine the flowers of one in one. However, according to scientists, bees with opposite attitude are also useful for hive, since variability is the raw material of evolution.