Bees depend on flowering plants for their nutrition, and reduced availability of floral
resources is a major driver of declines in both managed and wild bee populations …

Despite the prominence of kin selection as a framework for understanding the evolution of
sociality, many animal groups are comprised of unrelated individuals. These non-kin …

The initial fitness benefits of group living are considered to be the greatest hurdle to the
evolution of sociality, and evolutionary theory predicts that these benefits need to arise at …

Larger animals studied during ontogeny, across populations, or across species, usually
have lower mass-specific metabolic rates than smaller animals (hypometric scaling). This …

The effects of heterogeneity in group composition remain a major hurdle to our
understanding of collective behavior across disciplines. In social insects, division of labor …

Division of labor and task specialization explain the success of human and insect societies.
Social insect colonies are characterized by division of labor, with workers specializing in …

Names: Johnson, Brian R.,–author. Title: Honey bee biology/Brian R. Johnson; with a
foreword by omas D. Seeley. Description: First edition.| Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton …

Group size has profound effects on the organization of work. In the social insects, larger
colony size is consistently associated with lower mass-specific energy use; similar …

Ground-nesting bees are largely undervalued, both in terms of their use as model species
for behavioural studies, and in terms of their agricultural benefit as pollinators in crop …

The organizations of insect societies, such as division of labor, task allocation, collective
regulation, mass action responses, have been considered as main reasons for the …