Honey bee foragers as sensory units of their colonies

By T. Seeley. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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

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The control of nest climate in bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies: interindividual variability and self reinforcement in fanning response (2004, background): “In honey bees, dance thresholds have been shown to differ between individuals (Seeley, 1994), and a correlation has been found between the threshold concentration of sucrose solution for extending the proboscis in honey bees and forager preferences for water, nectar, or pollen (Page et al.”
Comparing foraging behaviour of small and large honey‐bee colonies by decoding waggle dances made by foragers (2004, unknown): “For a given rate of total nectar gain by the colony, bees adjust their dance threshold (a bee’s decision whether or not to dance) depending on foraging conditions, such that the dance threshold is high (low) when foraging is abundant (sparse) (Seeley 1994).”
Inner nest homeostasis in a changing environment with special emphasis on honey bee brood nursing and pollen supply (2004, background): “Honey bee colonies can precisely choose the most effective nectar source by evaluating the energetic foraging costs of each source and the energetic gains derived from each source (Seeley et al., 1991; Seeley, 1994).”
Group decision making in nest-site selection by honey bees (2004, background): “This decline of dancing over repeated visits to a nest site appears to be a special feature of dancing in the context of house hunting; bees dancing in the context of nectar foraging do not show a decline in dancing over repeated visits to a food source (Seeley, 1994, Visscher, 2003).”
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).”
HoPoMo : A model of honeybee intracolonial population dynamics and resource management (2007, background): “The process of mass recruitment of bees to food sources via dances is described in detail in Frisch (1927), in Seeley (1994, 1989) and in Seeley et al. (1991).”
Consensus building during nest-site selection in honey bee swarms: the expiration of dissent (2003, background): “Now this study, like that of Beering (2001), has shown that when a worker bee switches from foraging to nest-site scouting, she also converts from producing dances that do not fade over repeated trips back to the hive (Seeley 1994), to producing ones that do fade over repeated trips back to the swar”
Standard methods for maintaining adult Apis mellifera in cages under in vitro laboratory conditions (2013, background): “For workers, typical quantities of sucrose solution consumed in nature in a short interval is 50 µl (Seeley, 1994), whereas the honey stomach of drones usually can contain approximately 30 µl (Hoffmann, 1966).”