Fig 2. Comparisons of experimental and simulated route qualities.

Comparisons of route qualities (a) and route similarities (b) between simulations and experimental data (regular pentagonal array of flowers as in [22]). See details of models in Fig 1. For each dataset, we show the estimated average trends across foraging bouts (coloured curves), along the standard error (grey areas) of the mean. For the sake of eye comparison, in the simulation plots the standard error of the mean is estimated from a sample of 7 simulations (N = 7 bees in [22]). Average trends were estimated over 500 simulation runs, using GLMM Binomial model with bee identity as random effect (bee identity nested in simulation identity for simulated data).