Collective personalities in honeybee colonies are linked to colony fitness

By Margaret K. Wray, H. Mattila, T. Seeley. 2011

171 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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Personality in social insects: How does worker personality determine colony personality? (2012, background): “Honey bee, Apis melifera, colonies show consistent individual variation in foraging activity, defensive response, and undertaking, all of which correlate with one another (Wray et al., 2011).”
Vespa velutina: a new invasive predator of honeybees in Europe (2013, background): “Indeed, honeybee colonies can differ significantly in their collective behaviour (Wray et al. 2011), and some colony behaviours may more effectively limit V.”
Studying personality variation in invertebrates: why bother? (2014, background): “…bee Activity (across comb); boldness (defensive response); foraging; comb repair; removal of dead bees On colony level No Yes Yes (among tests) Wray, Mattila, and Seeley (2011) Apis mellifera Honey bee Decision-making behaviour (decision speed; waggle dance rate; shaking/ piping signals;…”
Linking levels of personality: personalities of the ‘average’ and ‘most extreme’ group members predict colony-level personality (2013, background): “Another subset of studies has shown that variation in individual- and colony-level personality can have large impacts on individual fitness and social group success, respectively (Reale & Festa-Bianchet 2003; Bell & Sih 2007; Modlmeier & Foitzik 2011; Pruitt & Riechert 2011; Wray et al. 2011; Modlme”
The development of collective personality: the ontogenetic drivers of behavioral variation across groups (2014, background): “There are few studies that investigate collective personalities (e.g., Scharf et al., 2012); most of which focus on measuring mature groups (those capable of reproducing or budding into new groups; e.g., Sasaki and Pratt, 2011; Wray and Seeley, 2011; Sasaki et al., 2013).”
Behavioural syndromes at multiple scales in Myrmica ants (2011, unknown): “Recent work has highlighted that behavioural syndromes are also evident in social insect species at a collective level, with bee colonies showing correlations between a number of fitness-related behaviours (Wray et al. 2011).”