Animal personalities or behavioural syndromes are consistent and/or correlated behaviours
across two or more situations within a population. Social insect biologists have measured …

The evolution of eusociality in Hymenoptera—encompassing bees, ants, and wasps—is
characterized by multiple gains and losses of social living, making this group a prime model …

Trophallaxis is a complex social fluid exchange emblematic of social insects and of ants in
particular. Trophallaxis behaviors are present in approximately half of all ant genera …

Recent evidence for genetic effects on royal and worker caste differentiation from diverse
social insect taxa has put an end to the view that these phenotypes stem solely from a …

Interactions among conspecifics influence social evolution through two distinct but intimately
related paths. First, they provide the opportunity for indirect genetic effects (IGEs), where …

Behavior is rapidly flexible and highly context-dependent, which poses obvious challenges
to researchers attempting to dissect its causes. However, over a century of unresolved …

Our understanding of insect societies is rapidly expanding due to an emphasis on
integrative approaches. Emerging tools enabling the molecular dissection of social …

The extreme diversity of dispersal strategies in ants is unique among terrestrial animals. The
nature of ant colonies as social, perennial and sessile superorganisms is the basis for …

The environment that an offspring experiences during its development can have lifelong
consequences for its morphology, anatomy, physiology and behaviour that are strong …

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are able to regulate the brood nest temperatures within a narrow
range between 32 and 36° C. Yet this small variation in brood temperature is sufficient to …