The use of field–based social information in eusocial foragers: local enhancement among nestmates and heterospecifics in stingless bees

By E. J. Slaa, J. Wassenberg, J. Biesmeijer. 2003

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Recruitment communication in stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) (2004, background): “Slaa et al. (2003) have shown that foragers of Trigona amalthea, Tetragonisca angustula, Partamona cupira ii , and Oxytrigona mellicolor display local enhancement and orient towards the visual presence of nestmates on a food source.”
Stingless bees in applied pollination: practice and perspectives (2006, background): “…to 12 mm for honeybees), and foraging strategy (some species recruit nestmates to high quality food sources, like honeybees, whereas others forage mainly indi- vidually, like bumble bees) (e.g. Roubik, 1992; Michener, 2000; Slaa, 2003; Slaa et al., 2003a; Biesmeijer and Slaa, 2004; Nieh, 2004).”
Information flow and organization of stingless bee foraging (2004, unknown): “They are strong individual competitors that show local inhibition towards nest mates (Slaa et al., 2003b), but carefully single out weaker rivals for attack.”
The dynamics of social learning in an insect model, the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) (2007, background): “Local enhancement is a common feature of invertebrate behavior, occurring in a variety of contexts from sexual behavior to foraging (Prokopy and Roitberg 2001; D’Adamo et al. 2003; Slaa et al. 2003).”