Abstract
Honey bee foraging is a complex process that goes beyond flight to a floral resource patch, collection of resources and flight back to the colony. Honey bee foraging has a temporal, spatial, and population component. Its extent and success depend upon weather conditions, plant physiological states, plant community diversity and plant dispersion within a landscape. Honey bee foraging may also result in competition through interactions with other honey bee colonies and individuals of other bee species. The consequence of successful foraging not only has ramifications for colony fitness, but also for plant reproduction, plant fitness, and when the plant community is a crop, the results are increased yield and farmer profit. Conceptual, simulation, and computational models of honey bee foraging allow investigations that increase our knowledge of the complex phenomena we refer to as foraging and insect mediated pollination. Without models, understanding and the prediction of honey bee foraging and its consequences are limited.
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