New article describes how search behavior in honey bee is influenced by experience -- ie., learning.

> Using an experimental approach comparing four honey bee species, our results suggest that the tendency to engage in costly search is shaped by multiple interactions among selection pressures differing between honey bee species. We found a correlation between search and how species build their nests, with species nesting in the open generally searching less than those nesting in cavities. However, past experience with a reward can sometimes interact with or overshadow the expected patterns 

As mentioned throughout this discussion, our study is limited
by the difficulty in isolating the effect of any one of many
potentially interacting selection pressures on exploration, particularly
when examining only four species and only one to
three colonies per species. Within-species variation in behavior
has been studied extensively in A. mellifera, with behavior
being influenced by factors such as season, climate, and colony genetics

Young, A. M., Brockmann, A., & Dyer, F. C. (2021). Adaptive tuning of the exploitation-exploration trade-off in four honey bee species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75(1), 1-15.

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