Reassessment confirms motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumble bees

Highlights

• Bees display flexible motivational trade-off behaviour.
• A critique inferred the use of a wrong model from a misreported output.
• This output is now corrected to reflect the correct model used.
• Model evaluation shows superior performance across all standard fit metrics.
• The correct model confirms and strengthens the original findings.