Long-range foraging by the honey-bee, Apis mellifera L.

By Madeleine Beekman, Francis L. W. Ratnieks. 2000

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

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Pollen transport differs among bees and flies in a human‐modified landscape (2011, background): “The lack of bee records at 400 m is unusual considering bees have been recorded travelling long distances (Beekman & Ratnieks, 2000; Walther-Hellwig & Frankl, 2000; Zurbuchen et al., 2010a,b).”
Life histories and parasite pressure across the major groups of social insects. (2005, background): “Bees and wasps may cover up to several kilometres on the wing (Spradbery, 1973; Roubik, 1989; Beekman and Ratnieks, 2000; Goulson and Stout, 2001; Dramsted et al., 2003) and typically exploit food sources that are accessible to all colonies in the area.”
Bee foraging ranges and their relationship to body size (2007, background): “Bees are the primary pollinators for most ecological regions of the world (Axelrod 1960; Bawa 1990 ).”
Weeds for bees? A review (2015, background): “Honeybees can travel long distances in search of desirable floral rewards and tend to forage within 2 km of their hives if there are attractive floral resources in the vicinity (Osborne et al. 2001), although foraging distances of up to 6 km have been suggested (Beekman and Ratnieks 2000).”
Automatic methods for long-term tracking and the detection and decoding of communication dances in honeybees (2015, methodology): “…data (Visscher, 1982; Waddington et al., 1994; Steffan-Dewenter and Kuhn, 2003) to one that occurs after the fact from video, using a manual (e.g., Beekman and Ratnieks, 2000), semi-automatic (e.g., De Marco et al., 2008) or automatic technique (e.g., Landgraf et al., 2011) for the extraction of…”
Comparing foraging behaviour of small and large honey‐bee colonies by decoding waggle dances made by foragers (2004, positive): “Dances were decoded following Beekman & Ratnieks (2000).”
Facilitative interactions among plants via shared pollinators (2004, background): “…may often manifest at larger spatial scales because (1) highly mobile pollinators forage over broad areas and can select among patches of plants (Beekman and Ratnieks 2000) or (2) plant communities affect the population dynamics and persistence of less mobile pollinators (e.g., solitary bees,…”
Quantifying variation among garden plants in attractiveness to bees and other flower‐visiting insects (2014, background): “Bumblebees [maximum foraging range c. 1 5 km, (Osborne et al. 2008)] and especially honeybees [maximum foraging range c. 10 km, (Beekman & Ratnieks 2000)] can forage at long distances from their nest and thus are able to exploit gar- den resources.”
Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior (2006, background): “…been used to create forage maps of honeybees in several habitats: temperate forest (Visscher and Seeley, 1982), African tropical forest (Schneider, 1989), a disturbed suburban habitat (Waddington et al., 1994), and a disturbed habitat mixed with more natural open moors (Beekman and Ratnieks, 2000).”
ECOLOGY OF ORGANISMS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS Urban drivers of plant-pollinator interactions (2015, background): “For example, seasonal changes in foraging activity between urban and rural habitats have been observed by decoding honeybee dances to determine worker flight directions and distances (Beekman & Ratnieks 2000).”
Impacts of Pesticides on Honey Bees (2016, background): “Bees are generally active between sunrise and an hour or two before sunset, and most honey bees forage within a 2–4 km radius of their hive, although may travel as far as 7 km or more in search of pollen and nectar when their local sources are scarce [75].”