In insects and other animals, nutrition-mediated behaviors are modulated by communication
between the brain and peripheral systems, a process that relies heavily on the insulin/insulin …

Neuromodulators are conserved across insect taxa, but how biogenic amines and their
receptors in ancestral solitary forms have been co-opted to control behaviors in derived …

Pesticide exposure and queen loss are considered to be major causes of honey bee colony
mortality, yet little is known regarding the effects of regularly encountered agrochemicals on …

Soil-dwelling animals are at risk of pathogen infection in soils. When choosing nesting sites,
animals could reduce this risk by avoiding contact with pathogens, yet there is currently little …

Conflict between genes inherited from the mother (matrigenes) and the father (patrigenes) is
predicted to arise during social interactions among offspring if these genes are not evenly …

Reproductive division of labour is a hallmark of eusociality, but disentangling the underlying
proximate mechanisms can be challenging. In bumblebees, workers isolated from the queen …

Behavioural variation is essential for animals to adapt to different social and environmental
conditions. The Kinship Theory of Intragenomic Conflict (KTIC) predicts that parent‐specific …

Trisiloxane surfactants are often applied in formulated adjuvant products to blooming crops,
including almonds, exposing the managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) used for pollination …

Social insects, especially honeybees, have received much attention in comparative
gerontology because of their peculiar and flexible ageing patterns that differ across …

Division of labor within a honey bee colony creates a codependence between bees
performing different tasks. The most obvious example of this is between the reproductive …