Highlights•Social interaction patterns affect disease transmission in social insect
colonies.•Segregation of individuals in space and time leads to interaction heterogeneities.• …

Complex insect societies are formed by thousands to millions of individuals which
incessantly interact in the sheltered nest space under the constant pressure of different …

Animal societies rely on interactions between group members to effectively communicate
and coordinate their actions. To date, the transmission properties of interaction networks …

Social insects rely extensively on interactions to coordinate their activities. Some studies
have recently explored several attributes of insect colonies from a network perspective …

Background The harmonious operation of many insect societies depends upon colony-wide
dissemination of a non-volatile pheromone produced by a single queen, which informs …

Animals often display a marked tendency to return to previously visited locations that contain
important resources, such as water, food, or develo** brood that must be provisioned. A …

Patterns of behavior within societies have long been visualized and interpreted using maps.
Map** the occurrence of sleep across individuals within a society could offer clues as to …

Division of labour (DoL) is a fundamental organisational principle in human societies, within
virtual and robotic swarms and at all levels of biological organisation. DoL reaches a …

Labour division in swarm intelligence provides a flexible task allocation method, which is
enlightening to solve allocation problems in dynamic environment. This paper presents a …

Social insects employ a variety of active and passive mechanisms for nest thermoregulation.
Many social wasp species exhibit a particular nest-architecture by building their nests with …