Bumblebee social learning outcomes correlate with their flower-facing behaviour by Yuyi Lu, Zhenwei Zhuo, Mark Roper, Lars Chittka, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng, Ying Zhou

“…Two groups of bumblebees observed live conspecifics foraging from either blue or yellow flowers during a single foraging bout, and were subsequently tested for their socially learned colour preferences. …”
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Living with the Florida Black Bear: a Homeowner's Guide to Nuisance Bear Prevention by Kimberly M. Annis, Melvin E. Sunquist, William M. Giuliano

“…Giuliano, describes the Florida black bear, its distribution, and the foraging behaviors that bring it in contact with humans, how to prevent nuisance problems with bears when in bear country, and what to do if you encounter a bear. …”
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Living with the Florida Black Bear: a Homeowner's Guide to Nuisance Bear Prevention by Kimberly M. Annis, Melvin E. Sunquist, William M. Giuliano

“…Giuliano, describes the Florida black bear, its distribution, and the foraging behaviors that bring it in contact with humans, how to prevent nuisance problems with bears when in bear country, and what to do if you encounter a bear. …”
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From fear to food: predation risk shapes deer behaviour, their resources and forest vegetation by Martin, Jean-Louis, Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon, Salomon, Anne, Gomez Pourroy, Devana Veronica, Schlaeflin, Mathilde, Le Saout, Soizic, Lucas, Annick, Bentaleb, Ilham, Chollet, Simon, Pattison, Jake, Martin-Blangy, Soline, Gaston, Anthony James

“…The “ecology of fear” posits that predation risk shapes the behaviour of large herbivores, their foraging patterns, their habitat selection and their consequent effect on forest ecology. …”
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Bigheaded Ant, Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) by John Warner, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“…Includes sections on distribution, description, similar ants in Florida, life cycle, foraging and feeding, nest sites, pest status, management and selected references. …”
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Pest Ants by P.G. Koehler, R.M. Pereira, J.L. Castner

“…Each section highlights unique features, such as nesting preferences, colony structure, and foraging behaviors, aiming to educate readers on identifying and managing these common pests. …”
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What behavior is important behavior? A systematic review of how wild and zoo-housed animals differ in their time-activity budgets by Robert Kelly, Marianne Freeman, Paul Rose, Paul Rose

“…Abnormal behavior prevalence and reduced foraging and reproductive behaviors in these groups suggests an inability to adapt to captivity. …”
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Agroforestry systems favor bat conservation but only when old and grazed by Manon Edo, Martin H. Entling, Felix Herzog, Kira Noe, João HN Palma, Ayla Seithe, Will Simonson, Jo Smith, Anja Weiler, Verena Rösch

“…In addition, social calls and foraging rates of bats were highest in silvopastoral systems. …”
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Bigheaded Ant, Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) by John Warner, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“…Includes sections on distribution, description, similar ants in Florida, life cycle, foraging and feeding, nest sites, pest status, management and selected references. …”
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Caribbean Crazy Ant (proposed common name), Paratrechina pubens Forel (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) by John Warner, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“… Over the last few years reports have escalated of a golden-brown to reddish-brown "crazy ant" infesting properties in and around West Palm Beach, Florida. Thick foraging trails with thousands of ants occur along sidewalks, around buildings, and on trees and shrubs. …”
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Large Carpenter Bees as Agricultural Pollinators by Tamar Keasar

“…Large carpenter bees (genus Xylocopa) are wood-nesting generalist pollinators of broad geographical distribution that exhibit varying levels of sociality. Their foraging is characterized by a wide range of food plants, long season of activity, tolerance of high temperatures, and activity under low illumination levels. …”
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Caribbean Crazy Ant (proposed common name), Paratrechina pubens Forel (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) by John Warner, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“… Over the last few years reports have escalated of a golden-brown to reddish-brown "crazy ant" infesting properties in and around West Palm Beach, Florida. Thick foraging trails with thousands of ants occur along sidewalks, around buildings, and on trees and shrubs. …”
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Semi-field experiments reveal contrasted predation and movement patterns of aquatic macroinvertebrate predators of Anopheles gambiae larvae by Hudson Onen, Emmanuel W. Kaindoa, Joel Nkya, Alex Limwagu, Martha A. Kaddumukasa, Fredros O. Okumu, Jonathan K. Kayondo, Anne M. Akol, Frédéric Tripet

“…Conclusion This study demonstrates that aquatic macroinvertebrate predators display adaptive foraging behaviour in response to prey presence and aquatic habitat size. …”
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Seven-Spot Ladybird Optimization: A Novel and Efficient Metaheuristic Algorithm for Numerical Optimization by Peng Wang, Zhouquan Zhu, Shuai Huang

“…The SLO is inspired by recent discoveries on the foraging behavior of a seven-spot ladybird. In this paper, the performance of the SLO is compared with that of the genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, and artificial bee colony algorithms by using five numerical benchmark functions with multimodality. …”
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Enhanced zebra optimization algorithm and applications of power allocation in SDWN by LI Jiajia, DONG Ligang, JIANG Xian

“…By introducing exploration factors and perturbation parameters into the zebra optimization algorithm, EZOA enhanced global search and local exploitation capabilities, while also improving the foraging strategy to increase algorithm diversity. …”
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Improved PSO algorithm based on swarm prematurely degree and nonlinear periodic oscillating strategy by Xi-hua ZHU, Ying-hui LI, Ning LI, Bing-kui FAN

“…The inertia weights were adjusted adaptively according to the swarm's premature convergence degree and the particles' fitnesses, and the nonlinear periodic oscillating strategy was used for the learning coefficients, which simulates the decentralization and regroup of the birds when they were foraging. The simulation results on benchmark functions show that the proposed algorithm not only has fast convergent rate and high quality of optimization, but also has good stability.…”
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Adaptive evolution of stress response genes in parasites aligns with host niche diversity by Armando J. Cruz-Laufer, Maarten P. M. Vanhove, Lutz Bachmann, Maxwell Barson, Hassan Bassirou, Arnold R. Bitja Nyom, Mare Geraerts, Christoph Hahn, Tine Huyse, Gyrhaiss Kapepula Kasembele, Samuel Njom, Philipp Resl, Karen Smeets, Nikol Kmentová

“…Results We assembled the sequences of 48 stress-related genes and report the first foraging (For) gene orthologs in flatworms. We found duplications of heat shock (Hsp) and oxidative stress genes in Cichlidogyrus compared to Kapentagyrus. …”
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Neuroeconomically dissociable forms of mental accounting are altered in a mouse model of diabetes by Chinonso A. Nwakama, Romain Durand-de Cuttoli, Zainab M. Oketokoun, Samantha O. Brown, Jillian E. Haller, Adriana Méndez, Mohammad Jodeiri Farshbaf, Y. Zoe Cho, Sanjana Ahmed, Sophia Leng, Jessica L. Ables, Brian M. Sweis

“…Here, we characterized value-based decision-making behavior of a streptozocin-induced diabetic mouse model on Restaurant Row, a naturalistic neuroeconomic foraging paradigm capable of behaviorally capturing multiple decision systems known to depend on dissociable neural circuits. …”
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Temporal Activity Patterns of the Spider Wasp Pepsis montezuma Smith (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) in a Disturbed Lower Montane Rainforest (Manizales, Colombia) by Carlos Restrepo-Giraldo, Juanita Rodriguez, James P. Pitts

“…During the morning, nectar foraging occurred at Baccharis latifolia. During the afternoon, females hunted for tarantulas of the genus Pamphobeteus (Araneae: Theraphosidae), which were dragged backwards to the nest by the wasp. …”
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