Comparing foraging behaviour of small and large honey‐bee colonies by decoding waggle dances made by foragers

By Madeleine Beekman, David J. T. Sumpter, N. Seraphides, Francis L. W. Ratnieks. 2004

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

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Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model (2006, background): “This area was chosen because more than 90% of foraging trips typically occur within 4 km of a hive (Beekman et al., 2004; Seeley, 1995; Visscher and Seeley, 1982).”
Lethal aerial powdering of honey bees with neonicotinoids from fragments of maize seed coat. (2011, background): “Considering that a bee can drink 30 µl of solution in a single session (Beekman et al., 2004), the intake of active ingredient would be 0.5 ng of Clothianidin.”
Edge effects on flower-visiting insects in grapefruit plantations bordering premontane subtropical forest. (2005, background): “Although honeybees can exploit food resources > 10 km away from their colony (Seeley 1984), they forage more typically to maximum distances < 2000 m (Beekman & Ratnieks 2000; Steffan-Dewenter & Kuhn 2003; Beekman et al. 2004).”
Decision making by small and large house-hunting ant colonies: one size fits all (2006, background): “…for example in the creation of infrastructures, the allocation of foragers or the division of labour (Houston & Schmid-Hempel 1988; Beckers et al. 1989; Karsai & Wenzel 1998; Anderson & Ratnieks 1999; Beekman et al. 2001, 2004; Gautrais et al. 2002; London & Jeanne 2003; Thomas & Elgar 2003).”
Why do not all workers work? Colony size and workload during emigrations in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2008, background): “1991; London and Jeanne 2003) or larger colonies (Schmid-Hempel 1990; Herbers and Choiniere 1996; Plowes and Adams 2005), and some studies finding no clear effect (Wolf and Schmid-Hempel 1990; Beekman 2004).”