The health of managed and wild honeybee colonies appears to have declined substantially
in E urope and the U nited S tates over the last decade. Sustainability of honeybee colonies …

A notable increase in failure of managed European honeybee Apis mellifera L. colonies has
been reported in various regions in recent years. Although the underlying causes remain …

Honey bees live in colonies of thousands of individuals, that not only need to collaborate
with each other but also to interact intensively with their ecosystem. A small group of robots …

Almost all bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers. Female bees collect pollen to
provision their nest cells, whereas they use nectar for individual energy supply and nest cell …

The perceptions and definitions of healthy indoor environments have changed significantly
throughout architectural history. Today, molecular biology teaches us that microbes play …

An important characteristic of a robot swarm that must operate in the real world is the ability
to cope with changeable environments by exhibiting behavioural plasticity at the collective …

We propose a new regulation mechanism based on the idea of the “common stomach” to
explain several aspects of the resilience and homeostatic regulation of honeybee colonies …

Simple regulatory mechanisms based on the idea of the saturable 'common stomach'can
control the regulation of protein foraging and protein allocation in honeybee colonies and …

We study whether or not a group of biomimetic waggle dancing robots is able to significantly
influence the swarm-intelligent decision making of a honeybee colony, eg to avoid foraging …

Metapolybia wasps construct their nests on flat surfaces using plant materials, which they
process into paper. For processing the pulp wasps need water, which is collected by water …