Exploration and exploitation of food sources by social insect colonies: a revision of the scout-recruit concept

By J. Biesmeijer, H. de Vries. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2001

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The use of waggle dance information by honey bees throughout their foraging careers (2005, background): “Transitions (arrows )o n the right half of the diagram involve following waggle dances; transitions on the left half do not involve following waggles dances (after Biesmeijer and de Vries (2001) )”
Modeling and analysis of nest-site selection by honeybee swarms: the speed and accuracy trade-off (2005, background): “Also relevant to the present study are the many models developed to analyze the food-source selection process of honeybee colonies (Camazine et al. 1990; Camazine and Sneyd 1991; Camazine 1991; Jenkins et al. 1992; Bartholdi et al. 1993; de Vries and Biesmeijer 1998; Biesmeijer and de Vries 2001; ”
A modelling framework for understanding social insect foraging (2003, background): “A recent review by Biesmeijer and de Vries (2001) correctly points out that there are a larger number of behavioural states involved in honey bee foraging than are captured by Eqs.”
Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model (2006, background): “Unemployed bees, foragers that know a food patch location, and recruits who have just received information about a food patch can all be in the ‘‘inactive’’ state but have different probabilities of leaving it. Whether a bee arrived at a food source by searching or after being recruited, it then sta”