Signatures of a globally optimal searching strategy in the three-dimensional foraging flights of bumblebees

Abstract

This work was funded by a combined grant (BB/F52765X/1) from the Wellcome Trust, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to LC. While writing the manuscript, ML was supported by grants from the Fyssen Foundation, the IDEX of the Federal University of Toulouse (Starting and Emergence schemes) and the CNRS. LC was supported by an ERC Advanced Grant (SpaceRadarPollinator) and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. AMR received funding from Rothamsted Research, a national institute of bioscience strategically funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and was also supported by the ERC Grant to LC