PERFORMANCE OF HONEYBEES IN ANALOGS OF THE RODENT RADIAL MAZE

The performance of individual honeybees pretrained to forage at a labo ratory window was studied in three rudimentary analogues of the radial maze designed for the study of short-term spatial memory in rats. A l inear arrangement of three targets was used in Experiment 1, a triangu lar arrangement of three targets in Experiment 2, and a rectangular ar rangement of four targets in Experiment 3, with reward only for the fi rst response to each of the targets presented on any given trial. Seve ral systematic patterns of responding were observed, with no indicatio n that the choices made by the animals were influenced by memory of ta rgets recently visited.