Honeybee Ecology

By T. Seeley. 2025

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The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee (2012, background): “Sterile female worker bees predominate within colonies in which they initially clean cells, rear brood, and store food, then leave the hive, and forage for pollen and nectar (5).”
Tropical Forest Fragments Enhance Pollinator Activity in Nearby Coffee Crops (2004, positive): “Apis are known to forage over greater distances than the native bees found in this study, often ranging to several kilometers (Seeley 1985).”
Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp.) (2004, neutral): “The nest thus functions as an information centre (Brown, 1988; Seeley, 1985b), where information on presence and profitability of food sources is stored and unsuccessful or unemployed foragers can learn the scent of profitable food sources.”
Stingless bees in applied pollination: practice and perspectives (2006, background): “Most species of stingless bees have a foraging range smaller than that of the honeybee, which may enhance foraging efficiency in confined spaces (Visscher and Seeley, 1982; Seeley, 1985; Katayama, 1987; Kakutani et al., 1993).”
Group decision making in nest-site selection by honey bees (2004, background): “Numerous studies were conducted to address the question of how scouts judge the quality of a potential nest site (reviewed by Seeley, 1985; Witherell, 1985).”
Impacts of honeybee density on crop yield: A meta‐analysis (2019, background): “Between 2% and 10% of the total population size of the colony are available daily for foraging (Seeley, 1985), and usually concerne the older individuals, because foraging is the last function of the worker (Menzel et al., 2005).”
Dynamic modelling of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony growth and failure (2013, background): “…also extremely senitive to variation in seasonal food availability and food demand. ere we modelled a situation common in some northern latitudes hen laying and brood production in colonies begin to increase in idwinter in advance of the spring bloom and abundant food availbility (Seeley, 1985).”
Modes of honeybees exposure to systemic insecticides: estimated amounts of contaminated pollen and nectar consumed by different categories of bees (2005, background): “Currently, it is considered that 95% of the foraging activity of honeybees extends up to 6 km away from the hive, but honeybees might forage up to 12 km from the hive (von Frisch, 1967; Seeley, 1985; Winston, 1987), which implies that they might visit plants over large areas of several tens of km2.”
When every sperm counts: factors affecting male fertility in the honeybee Apis mellifera (2013, neutral): “Seeley TD. 1985.”
Nest-site selection in honey bees: how well do swarms implement the "best-of-N" decision rule? (2001, neutral): “…only after its several hundred scout bees, working together, have examined a dozen or more alternative nesting sites (Lindauer 1955; Seeley and Buhrman 1999) and have assessed each of the alternatives with respect to at least six distinct properties (reviewed in Seeley 1985; Witherell 1985).”
Adaptive shifts in honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) guarding behavior support predictions of the acceptance threshold model (2000, background): “Guarding probably did not decline to zero because honey bees suffer robbing and harm from other species and must remain vigilant to such threats (Seeley, 1985).”
Ants move to improve: colonies of Leptothorax albipennis emigrate whenever they find a superior nest site (2004, background): “Social insects in particular are believed to derive a large part of their success from constructing elaborate nests that create improved microclimatic conditions and protect them from predation (Seeley 1985; Hölldobler & Wilson 1990).”
The role of Varroa and viral pathogens in the collapse of honeybee colonies: a modelling approach (2001, background): “Although honeybees have many defences against diseases, such as hygienic behaviour or the production of anti-microbial substances (Seeley 1985), colonies still suffer from a number of diseases and pests (Bailey & Ball 1991; Schmid-Hempel 1998).”
Stability analysis of swarms (2002, neutral): “A colony of honey bees achieves a high level of organization via dynamic division of labor, communications, and distributed decision making [93, 92, 116].”
A historical review of managed honey bee populations in Europe and the United States and the factors that may affect them. (2010, neutral): “Florida has recently been colonized with feral populations of Africanized honey bees.”