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Honeybee Ecology: A Study of Adaptation in Social Life

Seeley, Thomas D.·1985·Princeton University Press eBooks

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The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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“…2006), and that honey bees have been the focus of a diverse array of studies on ecology, the evolution of sociality, the genetic basis of behavior, and population genomics (e.g., Hung et al., 2018; Seeley, 1985; Shpigler et al., 2017; Smith, Toth, Suarez, & Robinson, 2008; Wallberg et al., 2014).”
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“These conditions favor high swarming rates and, thus, increased brood production (Seeley, 1985; Winston, 1987).”
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“Conversely, social honeybees require large amounts of resources and collect these resources as efficiently as possible (Seeley 1985).”
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“During reproductive swarming, old queens leave the nest along with a large proportion of their workers to ground a new nest at a different location (Seeley 1985).”
Sensory and Behavioural Responses of Terrestrial Invertebrates to Biogenic Carbon Dioxide Gradients
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“In addition, adult workers exhibit temporal polyethism (Seeley, 1982, 1985), performing different tasks at different times during their lives.”
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“…feral colonies, spatial distribution, nest site, cavity THE LOCATION OF NEST sites, as well as structural and environmental characteristics of nest sites, inßuences the survival, growth, and reproduction of feral honey bee, Apis mellifera L., colonies (Seeley 1985, Ratnieks and Nowakowski 1989).”
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Behavioral Thermoregulation in the Cold
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“Crowding could also occur when honey bee foragers raid another colony for stored food (Couvillon et al., 2008; Seeley, 1985; Winston, 1987).”
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Limited flexibility in the temporal caste system of the honey bee
Johnson, B. R. (2005) · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1007/s00265-005-0949-z · Cited by 41
“Weeks, or even months, of meager foraging can be followed by intense nectar flows (Seeley 1985).”
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Regulation of reproduction in the neotropical ponerine ant,Pachycondyla villosa
Heinze, J., Trunzer, B., Oliveira, P. S., et al. (1996) · Journal of Insect Behavior · doi:10.1007/bf02214021 · Cited by 40
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“, when swarming occurs and drones are produced) or large colony size at onset of winter adds positively to fitness (Seeley 1985; Seeley and Visscher 1985; Lee and Winston 1985b).”
Nectar Production in Oilseeds: Food for Pollinators in an Agricultural Landscape
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“We found no difference in temperature at the center of the observation hive in the small and large colonies, which corroborates existing studies that show honey bees tightly regulate the temperature of the brood nest (Seeley, 1985).”
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Retinue attraction and ovary activation: responses of wild type and anarchistic honey bees (Apis mellifera) to queen and brood pheromones
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“This is because cleansing behaviour is related to late winter/spring temperature (e.g. Kronenberg & Heller, 1982; Seeley, 1985).”
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“The survivability of a honey bee colony is based on the ability of the workers, and hence the colony as a whole, to effectively monitor information about rapidly changing resources (Seeley 1985).”
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Chapman, N. C., Oldroyd, B. P., & Hughes, W. O. H. (2007) · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1007/s00265-006-0348-0 · Cited by 37
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“These “robbers” steal honey (Free 1977; Seeley 1985) and can kill the victim hive.”
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“Another important behavior, which only some workers ever actually perform, is scouting behavior, which can take the form of worker bees scouting for new food sources or new nest sites after a swarming event (Seeley 1985).”
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“According to the literature a viable honeybee colony produces 100,000 up to 200,000 workers per year and thus requires an annual supply of 48 - 80 kg honey and 20 - 55 kg pollen (e.g. Seeley 1985, 1995, Keller et al. 2005).”
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The possible use of honeybee pollen loads in characterising vegetation
Díaz‐Losada, E., Ricciardelli‐D'Albore, G., & Saa-Otero, M. D. P. (1998) · Grana · doi:10.1080/00173139809362660 · Cited by 35
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Kraus, F., Neumann, P., Scharpenberg, H., et al. (2003) · Journal of Evolutionary Biology · doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.2003.00593.x · Cited by 35
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“Sterile female worker bees dominate within colonies, in which they initially clean cells, rear brood, and store food; then they leave the hive and search for pollen and nectar (Seeley 1985).”
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Monitoring of Bt-Maize pollen exposure in the vicinity of the nature reserve Ruhlsdorfer Bruch in northeast Germany 2007 to 2008
Hofmann, F., Epp, R., Kruse, L., Kalchschmied, A., Maisch, B., Müller, E., Kühn, U., Kratz, W., Ober, S., Radtke, J., et al. (2010) · Environmental Sciences Europe · doi:10.1007/s12302-010-0133-6 · Cited by 34
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“Instead, they have a quitting time that is the result of two factors: the need to conserve energy in order to fly back to their own nest (often over 5 km distant for bees living in the wild; Seeley 1985) and the cost of continued attempts, which is higher than for nestmates because the robber is assumed to differ more…”
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“It is now standardly assumed that honeybee workers are not sterile, but just sexually inactive due to an extreme form of altruism (cf. Seeley 1985).”
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Response of pollinators to the tradeoff between resource acquisition and predator avoidance
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“When the mother queen remains in the old colony, Bulmer (1983) and Pamilo (1991a) showed that relatively more new workers were predicted to stay with her under queen control than were predicted to stay under worker control (see also Seeley 1985).”
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Cognition in Bees: From Stimulus Reception to Behavioral Change
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“Estimates on the density of honeybee colonies are lower (1 colony/ 100 ha [Seeley 1985]; 2 colonies/100 ha in Amazonia [Roubik & Stierlin, pers. obs.]).”
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Honey bee diversity and beekeeping in Thailand
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“Flower constancy in honey bees has been well documented (Heinrich 1975; Seeley 1985).”
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“the nestmates to localize the food source (see von Frisch, 1967; Seeley, 1985; Gould and Gould, 1988; Kirchner and Towne, 1994).”
The Reproductive Ecology of an Emergent Dipterocarp in a Lowland Rain Forest in Sarawak
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“…information, e.g., location of the floral resources and their chemo-sensory information to their nest mates (von Frisch 1967; Farina et al. 2005), contributes to make these eusocial insects the most effective pollinators throughout a broad spectrum of agricultural settings (Seeley 1985).”
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An energetics-based honeybee nectar-foraging model used to assess the potential for landscape-level pesticide exposure dilution
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“A colony’s annual need of pollen 550 (protein) is smaller than that of nectar (25 compared to 125 kg (Seeley 1985)) and the overall 551 sugar consumption of individual bees exceeds the protein consumption about 5 times (Rortais et 552 al.”
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“…some thrips with soldiers (Crespi 1992; Crespi and Mound 1997), fungus ants (Atta spp.; Hölldobler and Wilson 1990), honeybees (Apis mellifera; Seeley 1985), mound-building termites (Macrotermes spp.; ShellmanReeve 1997), yellow jacket wasps (Vespula spp.; Greene 1991), and naked mole rats…”
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“Experiment 1 was conducted during the peak swarming period, when queen rearing takes place naturally in queenright colonies (Seeley 1985; Winston 1987).”
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Oxygen consumption and flight muscle activity during heating in workers and drones of Apis mellifera
Goller, F., & Esch, H. E. (1991) · Journal of Comparative Physiology B · doi:10.1007/bf00258747 · Cited by 28
Multiple methods of assessing nectar foraging conditions indicate peak foraging difficulty in late season
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“During nectar dearth, honey bee workers often attempt to enter other colonies to rob honey (Seeley 1985).”
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Worker reproduction in mixed-species colonies of honey bees
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Waggle dance behavior associated with seasonal absconding in colonies of the African honey bee,Apis mellifera scutellata
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Egg-marking pheromones in honey-bees Apis mellifera
Oldroyd, B. P., Ratnieks, F. L. W., & Wossler, T. C. (2002) · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1007/s00265-002-0480-4 · Cited by 27
“A queen-produced egg-marking signal (pheromone) is expected on theoretical grounds (Ratnieks 1988, 1993, 1995, 1999; Ratnieks and Visscher 1989; Ratnieks and Reeve 1992) as such a signal benefits both the receiver (policing workers) and the sender (the queen) (Seeley 1985; Keller and Nonacs 1993).”
Background
Oriental Orchid (Cymbidium floribundum) Attracts the Japanese Honeybee (Apis cerana japonica) with a Mixture of 3-Hydroxyoctanoic Acid and 10-Hydroxy- (E)-2-Decenoic Acid
Sugahara, M., Izutsu, K., Nishimura, Y., et al. (2013) · ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE · doi:10.2108/zsj.30.99 · Cited by 26
Efectos de la Fragmentatión Sobre la Aborción y Depredación de Semillas en el Chaco Serrano
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Endoparasitic flies, pollen-collection by bumblebees and a potential host-parasite conflict
Schmid‐Hempel, R., & Schmid‐Hempel, P. (1991) · Oecologia · doi:10.1007/bf00325260 · Cited by 26
“Brood in contrast is fed with large quantities of pollen (e.g. Michener 1975; Seeley 1985).”
Background
The concept of robot society and its utilization
Halme, A. J., Jakubik, P., Schönberg, T., et al. (2002) · doi:10.1109/icar.1993.337222 · Cited by 26
Induction of a reproductive-specific cuticular hydrocarbon profile by a juvenile hormone analog in the termite Zootermopsis nevadensis
Brent, C. S., Penick, C. A., Trobaugh, B., Moore, D., & Liebig, J. (2016) · Chemoecology · doi:10.1007/s00049-016-0219-8 · Cited by 25
Individual-level patterns of division of labor in honeybees highlight flexibility in colony-level developmental mechanisms
Johnson, B. R., & Frost, E. A. M. (2012) · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1007/s00265-012-1341-4 · Cited by 25
“(Seeley 1985) as they tend to gain most of their weight in brief nectar flows, and either lose weight or break even through most of the summer.”
Solitary and social bees as pollinators of Wahlenbergia (Campanulaceae): single-visit effectiveness, overnight sheltering and responses to flower colour
Welsford, M. R., & Johnson, S. D. (2011) · Arthropod-Plant Interactions · doi:10.1007/s11829-011-9149-0 · Cited by 25
“…on a single female to sufficiently provide nutritionally complete food provisions for her offspring (i.e. pollen variety), which is unlike social honeybees that have numerous foraging female workers collecting a wide variety of pollen (Strickler 1979; Seeley 1985; Seeley 1989; Michener 2000).”
Background
Head-butting as an Early Indicator of Reproductive Disinhibition in the Termite Zootermopsis nevadensis
Penick, C. A., Trobaugh, B., Brent, C. S., et al. (2012) · Journal of Insect Behavior · doi:10.1007/s10905-012-9332-x · Cited by 25
“The maintenance of a reproductive division of labor within eusocial insect societies requires that reproductives continuously signal their presence (Seeley 1985; Keller and Nonacs 1993).”
Background
Identification of AFLP Markers that Discriminate Between Cultivated Cotton and the Hawaiian Island Endemic, Gossypium tomentosumNuttall ex Seeman
Hawkins, J., Pleasants, J. M., & Wendel, J. F. (2005) · Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution · doi:10.1007/s10722-004-6115-z · Cited by 25
“Given the ability of these species to forage several kilometers from their hive, up to a maximum of about 12 km (Seeley 1985), and given that they commonly visit flowers of commercial cotton (Moffet 1983), they are potential vectors for hybridization.”
Background
The effects of size and reproductive quality on the outcomes of duels between honey bee queens ( Apis mellifera L.)
Tarpy, D. R., & Mayer, M. K. (2009) · Ethology Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1080/08927014.2009.9522503 · Cited by 25
“When a colony swarms, the mother queen departs with approximately half of the worker population to form a new colony, leaving behind in the parental nest one or two dozen developing queen cells (SEELEY 1985, WINSTON 1987).”
Background
Nest characteristics and recruitment behavior of absconding colonies of the African honey bee,Apis mellifera scutellata, in Africa
Schneider, S. S. (1990) · Journal of Insect Behavior · doi:10.1007/bf01417914 · Cited by 25
“, 1979; Fletcher, 1978), yet absconding remains one of the more poorly understood aspects of honey bee biology (Seeley, 1985).”
Background
Reproductive and Pollination Biology of the Endemic Hawaiian Cotton, Gossypium tomentosum (Malvaceae)
Pleasants, J. M., & Wendel, J. F. (2010) · Pacific Science · doi:10.2984/64.1.045 · Cited by 25
Sex-ratio conflicts, kin selection, and the evolution of altruism
Alonso, W. J., & Schuck‐Paim, C. (2002) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.092584299 · Cited by 25
Nectar secretion pattern of the dish‐shaped flower, Cayratia japonica (Vitaceae), and nectar utilization patterns by insect visitors
Kakutani, T., Inoue, T., & Katô, M. (1989) · Population Ecology · doi:10.1007/bf02513213 · Cited by 25
Prévision des potentialités de production de miel à l’échelle d’un rucher au moyen d’un système d’information géographique
Janssens, X., Bruneau, É., & Lebrun, P. (2006) · Apidologie · doi:10.1051/apido:2006006 · Cited by 24
“…et Hegg, 2001), valeurs quantitatives de potentiels mellifères (Jacobs et al., 1982 ; Crane et al., 1984 ; Ruppertshofen, 1995 ; Guerriat, 1996) et estimation d’attractivité, basée sur la distance et l’abondance des ressources florales (Seeley, 1985 ; Menzel et Mercer, 1987 ; Guerriat, 1999).”
BackgroundInfluential
Impact of colony size on survival and sanitary strategies in fungus-infected ant colonies
Leclerc, J.-B., & Detrain, C. (2017) · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1007/s00265-017-2415-0 · Cited by 24

Authors: Seeley, T. D.
Corresponding author: Seeley, Thomas D.
ORCID: Seeley, Thomas D.
Venue: Princeton University Press eBooks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1985-12-31
DOI: 10.1515/9781400857876
OpenAlex: W4248931386
Cited by: 635
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 16 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 28 · 2012: 18
FWCI: 5.67
Type: book
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Princeton University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Plant and animal studies
Keywords: Apis mellifera, social insects, insect social behavior, evolution of sociality, eusociality, bee ecology

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