Behavioral Responses to Body Position in Bees: The Interaction of and in Prickly Pear Flowers.

The behavior of bees is modulated by the presence of other bees and potentially by the visual information transmitted by the different body positions of bees while visiting flowers. We tested whether bee body position promoted the attraction and/or antagonistic behavior of con- and hetero-specific bees that interacted on prickly pear flowers of . To test this, we placed dummy model bees of and the native in flowers in three common body positions: alert, feeding, and horizontal.