...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...

...Renata S. Borba; Karen K. Klyczek; Kim L. Mogen; Marla Spivak ABSTRACT Honey bees, as social insects, rely on collective behavioral defenses that produce a colony-level immune phenotype, or social immunity, which in turn impacts the immune response of individuals. One behavioral defense...

... terrestris Crithidia bombi host–parasite interaction social cue social immunity social learning Foraging behaviour and its optimization was and still remains a centre of evolutionary, ecological and neuroscience research. Solitary animals rely on environmental cues and their experience...