...Hannah J. Penn; Michael D. Simone-Finstrom; Lilia I. de Guzman; Philip G. Tokarz; Rachel Dickens ABSTRACT Food quantity and macronutrients contribute to honey bee health and colony survival by mediating immune responses. We determined if this held true for bees injected with chronic bee paralysis...

... 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...

...Arian Avalos; Eddie Pérez; Lianna Vallejo; María E. Pérez; Charles I. Abramson; Tugrul Giray ABSTRACT The dissemination of information is a basic element of group cohesion. In honey bees ( Apis mellifera Linnaeus 1758), like in other social insects, the principal method for colony-wide information...

... and functions of honey bee stings and paper wasp stings. Their elegant structures were systematically observed. To examine their behaviors of penetrating into different materials, we performed penetration–extraction tests and slow motion analyses of their insertion process. In comparison, the barbed stings...

... for intended signal receivers, but also to biologists studying the system. In honey bees, a forager communicates to nestmates the location of an important resource via the waggle dance. This vibrational signal is composed of repeating units (waggle runs) that are then averaged by nestmates to derive a single...