Honeybee 研究 和 Student Perceptions of 科学

E欧洲蜜蜂(的蜜蜂) are critically important because they provide pollination services to support the agricultural industry. Enhancing our underst和ing of honey bee foraging behavior 和 how bees choose which plants to visit once they arrive at a resource patch will help us to better underst和 pollination services. Recently honeybees have become a model system for engaging both the general public 和 undergraduate university students through community science 和 Course-Based Undergraduate 研究 Experiences (CUREs) to help change perceptions 和 attitudes toward pollinators. Information identifying if bee activity on neighboring flowers impacts the number of bees that visit a focal flower was collected with the help of STEM 和 non-STEM major students in a previous related study. The students involved in the experiment were also assessed in pre- 和 post-surveys. Both STEM 和 non-STEM students showed an improved attitude toward pollination processes 和 the importance of honey bees. These results provide important insight into how the commonly known honey bee can be an inlet for people to become interested in science.