Adult honey bees are maintained in vitro in laboratory cages for a variety of purposes. For
example, researchers may wish to perform experiments on honey bees caged individually or …

▪ Abstract Division of labor is one of the most basic and widely studied aspects of colony
behavior in social insects. Studies of division of labor are concerned with the integration of …

Previous surveys have shown that adult honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers harbor a
characteristic gut microbiota that may play a significant role in bee health. For three major …

Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving
systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents …

Ants live in organized societies with a marked division of labor among workers, but little is
known about how this division of labor is generated. We used a tracking system to …

This book describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant
experimental studies conducted by the author to investigate how a colony of bees is …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Ant colonies, and more generally social insect societies, are distributed systems that, in spite
of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organization. As a …

The honey bee, the world's most important agricultural pollinator, relies exclusively on plant‐
derived foods for nutrition. Nectar and pollen collected by honey bees are processed and …

Background Honeybees provide economically and ecologically vital pollination services to
crops and wild plants. During the last decade elevated colony losses have been …