Bumblebees do not learn polarization cues in flower choice
Until recently, sensitivity to the polarization of light had not been scrutinized in the context of flower choice in bees. In 2014, it was demonstrated that buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) could learn to distinguish between two artificial “flower” targets presenting patterns of different polarization angle orientations over 100 choices, but only when the polarization cue was in view of
