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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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“…I find any citations or comments about von Frisch’s 1937 and 1943 papers in any readily available summaries of his work (e.g., von Frisch, 1950; Lindauer, 1961; Wilson, 1971; Michener, 1974; Seeley, 1985; Free, 1987; Winston, 1987; Gould and Gould, 1988; Crane, 1990; Gary, 1992; Seeley, 1995).”
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“This mode of colony founding is used, for example, in the honeybee (Michener 1974; Seeley 1985), swarm-founding wasps (Jeanne 1980), and army ants (Schneirla 1971).”
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“2011), and greater food availability can lead to earlier foraging activity (Seeley 1985), higher hemolymph protein among MDI foragers may be indicative of earlier onset of foraging behavior.”
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“Seeley (1985) noted that in Rothenbuhler (1964a) classic behavioural genetics study of hygienic behaviour in the honey bee, hygienic colonies with brood cells experimentally infected with Paenibacillus larvae, the causative agent of American foulbrood, also removed a Correspondence: Gianluigi…”
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“To accomplish this, colonies must stockpile sufficient food reserves during the fall to last until foraging begins the next spring (Seeley 1985) and they must produce a population of long-lived “winter bees” that will maintain the nest throughout the winter and act as nurses for the first batch of…”
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“mellifera which has an average foraging distance of about 1,000 m (Seeley 1985) and a minimum absconding range of about 6,000 m (Schneider 1990).”
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“by Seeley (2002) who studied the effect of drone comb”
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“…are not particularly attractive or efficiently gathered, to fulfil the great pollen demands of successful colony development and reproduction (∼20 kg year) (Seeley, 1985), and to obtain different nutrients that may be segregated among plant species (Odoux et al., 2012; Donkersley et al., 2014).”
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Honeybee swarms accept bait hives contaminated with American foulbrood disease
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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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