..., not in the context of sexual selection, but rather in context of cooperative signaling within a collective. We conducted our study at the UC San Diego Biological Field Station in La Jolla, California, USA, between July-October 2007 and July-September 2011. We used four healthy colonies of Apis mellifera...

... diets are often complex and may interact with one another, necessitating the use of a geometric framework for elucidating nutritional effects. In the honey bee, Apis mellifera , nurse bees provision food to developing larvae, directly moderating growth rates and caste development. However, the eusocial...

...-sa/3.0/ ). * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) Waggle dance Honey bee Apis mellifera Animal communication Social insect recruitment In the decades since Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bee workers ( Apis mellifera spp.) communicate foraging...