ABSTRACT
Honey bees display a number of cognitive specializations that suggest the existence of multiple memory systems. One handles flower-pattern learning, which is accomplished on a forager’s approach to a flozoer and is stored pictorially at relatively low resolution. A second specialized system deals with learning landmarks, which
are used to triangulate the location of floral targets; this learning seems to occur during the departure phase of foraging and is stored pictorially at a higher resolution than flower-pattern memory. Another specialization of honey bee memory serves to index floral information temporally: foragers learn hozo to harvest individual flozoers, and store that information (along with flozoer recognition) according to time of day. These specializations, along with others also described, seem well adapted to the needs of a flozoer-constant nectar-foraging insect.
