...Emilia Moreno; Andrés Arenas ABSTRACT Social insects live in communities where cooperative actions heavily rely on the individual cognitive abilities of their members. In the honey bee ( Apis mellifera ), the specialization in nectar or pollen collection is associated with variations in gustatory...

... of the cellular stress mechanisms employed by diverse bee species. We recently uncovered the biomarker lethal (2) essential for life [ l(2)efl ] genes as part of a shared transcriptional program in response to a number of cell stressors in the western honey bee ( Apis mellifera ). Here, we describe another shared...

... understood. Here, we used three insect species with different thermal tolerances (the honey bee, Apis mellifera ; the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster ; and the potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata ) to characterize the thermal sensitivity of different metabolic enzymes. Specifically, we measured...

... being consistently better learners than the others within a sensory modality but across task complexity. Apis mellifera Cognitive consistency Honey bee Insect cognition Inter-individual variability Visual cognition Fondation Fyssen http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003135...

... of Biologists Ltd 2021 Summary: In this Review, we summarize recent findings about the mechanisms involved in gut colonization and the provisioning of beneficial effects in gut microbiota–insect symbiosis. Arthropod Digestive tract Fruit fly Honey bee Symbiosis Termite...

...Vanessa Corby-Harris; Megan E. Deeter; Lucy Snyder; Charlotte Meador; Ashley C. Welchert; Amelia Hoffman; Bethany T. Obernesser ABSTRACT Recent widespread honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) colony loss is attributed to a variety of stressors, including parasites, pathogens, pesticides and poor nutrition...

...Mohamed Alburaki; Shahid Karim; Kurt Lamour; John Adamczyk; Scott D. Stewart ABSTRACT In this study, we present phenotypic and genetic data characterizing the impact of imidacloprid and caging stress on honey bee Apis mellifera physiological responses and regulation of 45 genes using targeted-RNA...

... of senescence are shaped by behavioral development and behavioral duration, we exploited the tractability of the honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) model system. First, we determined whether a cause–effect relationship exists between honey bee flight and oxidative stress by comparing oxidative damage accrued from...

...Mário S. Cervoni; Carlos A. M. Cardoso-Júnior; Giovana Craveiro; Anderson de O. Souza; Luciane C. Alberici; Klaus Hartfelder ABSTRACT During adult life, honey bee workers undergo a succession of behavioral states. Nurse bees perform tasks inside the nest, and when they are about 2–3 weeks old...

..., minimising the overall travel distances between multiple flower patches. Apis mellifera Honey bee Navigation Spatial cognition Route learning Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 10.13039/501100004794 Fondation Fyssen 10.13039/501100003135 Université de...

... division of labor in the honey bee ( Apis mellifera ). Worker division of labor is based on a process of behavioral maturation by individual bees, which involves performing in-hive tasks early in adulthood, then transitioning to foraging for food outside the hive. Social and nutritional cues converge...

...Jianjun Li; Zhengwei Wang; Ken Tan; Yufeng Qu; James C. Nieh Social pollinators such as honey bees face attacks from predators not only at the nest, but also during foraging. Pollinating honey bees can therefore release alarm pheromones that deter conspecifics from visiting dangerous inflorescences...

...Claudia C. Lutz; Gene E. Robinson SUMMARY The natural history of adult worker honey bees ( Apis mellifera ) provides an opportunity to study the molecular basis of learning in an ecological context. Foragers must learn to navigate between the hive and floral locations that may be up to miles away...

...Heike Gätschenberger; Olaf Gimple; Jürgen Tautz; Hildburg Beier SUMMARY Drones are haploid male individuals whose major social function in honey bee colonies is to produce sperm and mate with a queen. In spite of their limited tasks, the vitality of drones is of utmost importance for the next...

...Andreas Behrends; Ricarda Scheiner SUMMARY Honey bees ( Apis mellifera ) are well known for their excellent learning abilities. Although most age groups learn quickly to associate an odor with a sucrose reward, newly emerged bees and old foragers often perform poorly. For a long time, the reason...

...Ying Wang; Sarah D. Kocher; Timothy A. Linksvayer; Christina M. Grozinger; Robert E. Page, Jr; Gro V. Amdam SUMMARY Several lines of evidence support genetic links between ovary size and division of labor in worker honey bees. However, it is largely unknown how ovaries influence behavior...

...Christoph Grüter; Heather Moore; Nicola Firmin; Heikki Helanterä; Francis L. W. Ratnieks SUMMARY As first described by Aristotle, honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) workers show a strong tendency to visit flowers of only one type during a foraging trip. It is known that workers rapidly learn a flower...

...Nicholas L. Naeger; Byron N. Van Nest; Jennifer N. Johnson; Sam D. Boyd; Bruce R. Southey; Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas; Darrell Moore; Gene E. Robinson Honey bees can form distinct spatiotemporal memories that allow them to return repeatedly to different food sources at different times of day. Although...

...Nik Sadler; James C. Nieh SUMMARY Insects that regulate flight muscle temperatures serve as crucial pollinators in a broad range of ecosystems, in part because they forage over a wide span of temperatures. Honey bees are a classic example and maintain their thoracic muscles at temperatures ( T th...

... conspicuous peaks for bees flying toward the swarm's new home, especially for bees in the top of the swarm. This is strong support for the streaker bee hypothesis. Apis mellifera honeybee honey bee swarm flying swarm in-transit swarm In many animal species, individuals move about in groups...