Social insect are profoundly influenced by primer pheromones (PPhs), which are efficient
means for maintaining social harmony in the colony. PPhs act by affecting the physiology of …

Queen pheromones, which signal the presence of a fertile queen and induce daughter
workers to remain sterile, are considered to play a key role in regulating the reproductive …

Pheromones are chemical substances secreted by an animal's exocrine glands that elicit a
behavioral or physiological response by another animal of the same species. In honey bees …

While chemical communication regulates individual behavior in a wide variety of species,
these communication systems are most elaborated in insect societies. In these complex …

Group-living animals must adjust the expression of their social behaviour to changes in their
social environment and to transitions between life-history stages, and this social plasticity …

Intraspecific communication involves the activation of chemoreceptors and subsequent
activation of different central areas that coordinate the responses of the entire organism …

A wireless sensor network comprises a number of inexpensive power constrained wireless
sensor nodes which collect data from the sensing environment and transmit them toward the …

In eusocial insects the production of daughters is generally restricted to mated queens, and
unmated workers are functionally sterile. The evolution of this worker sterility has been …

The cyano-substituted neonicotinoid insecticide, thiacloprid, is nowadays widely used in
agriculture for controlling insect pests. However, it also simultaneously has adverse effects …

The mandibular glands of queen honeybees produce a pheromone that modulates many
aspects of worker honeybee physiology and behavior and is critical for colony social …