foraging

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The researchers found that foraging bees are not simply delivering a fixed message.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

Truffle hunting is arguably the most in-demand foraging experience for European travelers.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Fryar, who wrote a book about the Potomac after discovering its hidden wilds, plans to stop foraging for pawpaws and a leafy green called sochan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

The elephant's gradiated structure can help with things like object differentiation while foraging and eating -- which they spend the vast majority of their time doing.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Even in the second year after DDT enters a stream, a foraging salmon parr would have trouble finding anything more than an occasional small stonefly.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson