A wide variety of insects use spatial memories in behaviours like holding a position in air or
flowing water, in returning to a place of safety, and in foraging. The Hymenoptera, in …

Equipped with a mini brain smaller than one cubic millimeter and containing only 950,000
neurons, honeybees could be indeed considered as having rather limited cognitive abilities …

Stingless bees (Meliponini) are the largest and most diverse group of social bees, yet their
largely tropical distribution means that they are less studied than their relatives, the bumble …

Learning and memory, defined as the acquisition and retention of neuronal representations
of new information, are ubiquitous among insects. Recent research indicates that a variety of …

Communication and learning from each other are part of the success of insect societies.
Here, we review a spectrum of social information usage in insects—from inadvertently …

The honeybee (Apis mellifera) waggle dance, whereby dancing bees communicate the
location of profitable food sources to other bees in the hive, is one of the most celebrated …

With less than a million neurons, the western honeybee Apis mellifera is capable of complex
olfactory behaviors and provides an ideal model for investigating the neurophysiology of the …

In this BEEBOOK paper we present a set of established methods for quantifying honey bee
behaviour. We start with general methods for preparing bees for behavioural assays. Then …

Communication is a fundamental feature of animal societies and helps their members to
solve the challenges they encounter, from exploiting food sources to fighting enemies or …

Publisher Summary This chapter compares collective decisions in hives and in ant nests by
relating the properties of recruiting signals to the foraging strategies displayed by these two …