..., populations of social bee species living in different climate zones likely show specific adaptations in their recruitment communication. Accordingly, studies in the western honey bee, Apis mellifera , demonstrated that temperate populations exhibit shallower dance-calibration curves compared with tropical...

...Gyan Harwood; Heli Salmela; Dalial Freitak; Gro Amdam ABSTRACT Social immunity is a suite of behavioral and physiological traits that allow colony members to protect one another from pathogens, and includes the oral transfer of immunological compounds between nestmates. In honey bees, royal jelly...

..., we ask whether honey bees discriminate between floral-fragrance isomers in an appetitive context. We used the olfactory conditioning of the proboscis extension response, which allows training a restrained bee to an odor paired with sucrose solution. Bees were trained under an absolute (a single...

...Chelsea N. Cook; Colin S. Brent; Michael D. Breed ABSTRACT Biogenic amines regulate the proximate mechanisms underlying most behavior, including those that contribute to the overall success of complex societies. For honey bees, one crucial set of behaviors contributing to the welfare of a colony...

.... Here we show a modification of the Drosophila activity monitoring (DAM) system that allowed us to measure locomotor rhythms of the honey bee, Apis mellifera (three variants; gAHB, carnica and caucasica ), and two paper wasps ( Polistes crinitus and Mischocyttarus phthisicus ). A side-by-side comparison...

...Christopher W. Dinges; Arian Avalos; Charles I. Abramson; David Philip Arthur Craig; Zoe M. Austin; Christopher A. Varnon; Fatima Nur Dal; Tugrul Giray; Harrington Wells SUMMARY Honey bees provide a model system to elucidate the relationship between sociality and complex behaviors within the same...

...Michael Hrncir; Camila Maia-Silva; Sofia I. Mc Cabe; Walter M. Farina SUMMARY The honey bee's waggle dance constitutes a remarkable example of an efficient code allowing social exploitation of available feeding sites. In addition to indicating the position (distance, direction) of a food patch...

...Paul D. Cooper; William M. Schaffer; Stephen L. Buchmann ABSTRACT A heat budget for foraging honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) indicated that at 30-35 °C all bees are in positive heat balance during flight. Observations of honey bees returning to their hives at high ambient temperatures support...