Risk‐Averse Foraging in Bees: A Comment on the Mode of Harder and Real

Within foraging theory, it has been common to take the reward currency to be the net amount of energy that is gained. Some care is needed in defining risk-sensitive foraging in this context. Where there is only one choice between two feeding options and each option takes the same amount of time to exploit, then it is reasonable to define an animal to be risk sensitive in reward magnitude if both the mean and the variance in energy gained influence preference.