foraging

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of forage

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of searching for food or other items.

   ““This suggests that most of the foraging that the bees do occurs very close to the hive,” study co-author Margarita López-Uribe, an associate professor of entomology at PSU, told CNN on Monday.”