Nest-site selection in honey bees: how well do swarms implement the "best-of-N" decision rule?

By T. Seeley, Susannah C. Buhrman. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2001

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

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From nonlinearity to optimality: pheromone trail foraging by ants (2003, background): “Both ants and honeybees are capable of choosing the best of several possible new nest sites during migration or swarming (Mallon et al. 2001; Seeley & Buhrman 2001).”
The principles of collective animal behaviour (2006, background): “For example, Camazine et al. (1999), Seeley & Buhrman (2001), Seeley (2003) and Seeley & Visscher (2003) have studied the migration of honey bees and found that they use a similar combination of positive feedback (dancing instead of tandem running) and quorum thresholds (Seeley & Visscher 2004) as…”
An agent-based model of collective nest choice by the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2005, background): “Similar experimental data is also available for honeybee house-hunting (Camazine et al. 1999; Seeley & Buhrman 1999; Seeley & Buhrman 2001; Seeley 2003; Seeley & Visscher 2003, 2004) as well as for certain aspects of the foraging of honeybees (Seeley 1995) and several ant species (Detrain &…”
Consensus building during nest-site selection in honey bee swarms: the expiration of dissent (2003, background): “We also now know that the site chosen by the scouts is usually the best of the sites that they have discovered (Seeley and Buhrman 2001).”
Modulation of individual behavior and collective decision-making during aggregation site selection by the ant Messor barbarus (2004, background): “For example, bees modulate the strength of the waggle dance in accordance with the suitability of a potential nest site or the profitability of the food source (Seeley et al. 2000; Seeley and Buhrman 2001).”
Modeling and analysis of nest-site selection by honeybee swarms: the speed and accuracy trade-off (2005, methodology): “Simultaneously, there is a type of " cross inhibition " that has been seen experimentally in studies by Seeley and Buhrman (1999, 2001), where as site 6 begins to dominate the process , it inhibits the dancing for some other sites (e.g., sites 2 and 5) and the numbers of bees visiting them…”
Individual and collective decision-making during nest site selection by the ant Leptothorax albipennis (2001, background): “These abilities are on a par with those achieved by house-hunting honey-bee swarms, with their greater populations and more complex recruitment communication (Seeley 1985; Seeley and Buhrman 2001 ).”
Automatic methods for long-term tracking and the detection and decoding of communication dances in honeybees (2015, background): “A dance indicates a positive assessment and represents an integrated signal that the forage or nestsite is valuable (Seeley, 1994, 2010; Seeley and Buhrman, 2001; Couvillon et al., 2014a).”
Strategies for choosing between alternatives with different attributes: exemplified by house-hunting ants (2003, background): “Seeley & Buhrman (2001) have shown that honeybee colonies can select the single most desirable nest out of an array of five, in which the other four nest sites were acceptable but mediocre.”
Group decision making in nest-site selection by honey bees (2004, background): “Watching the dancing bees on a swarm build a consensus for a nest site naturally raises the following question: is the site that wins in the competition for dancers the best of the sites that the scout bees have found? The results of a recent study (Seeley and Buhrman, 2001) indicate that swarms are”
Quorum sensing during nest-site selection by honeybee swarms (2004, methodology): “The five nest boxes used in this study were the same as those used in a previous study (Seeley and Buhrman 2001).”
Choosing a home: how the scouts in a honey bee swarm perceive the completion of their group decision making (2003, background): “Shortly before a honey bee swarm lifts off to fly to its future home site, there are usually numerous scouts at the chosen nest cavity, with ten or more outside and probably even more inside (Seeley et al. 1979; Visscher and Camazine 1999; Seeley and Buhrman 2001).”
Honeybee swarms: how do scouts guide a swarm of uninformed bees? (2005, background): “Even though more than one potential nest site is likely to be discovered by different scouts, and dances advertising several different sites will take place at any one time, the swarm will ultimately decide on one of the nest sites, lift off and fly towards its chosen home (Lindauer 1955; Camazine e”