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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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“Migration dances” in swarming colonies of the honey bee,Apis mellifera
Lewis, L. A., & Schneider, S. S. (2008) · Apidologie · doi:10.1051/apido:2008018 · Cited by 10
Influence of Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) on the Use of the Most Abundant and Attractive Floral Resources in a Plant Community
Polatto, L. P., & Chaud-Netto, J. (2013) · Neotropical Entomology · doi:10.1007/s13744-013-0165-x · Cited by 10
Why do honey bee workers destroy each other’s eggs?
Gadagkar, R. (2004) · Journal of Biosciences · doi:10.1007/bf02702602 · Cited by 10
Colonization of Honey Bee Digestive Tracts by Environmental Yeast Lachancea thermotolerans Is Naturally Occurring, Temperature Dependent, and Impacts the Microbiome of Newly Emerged Bees
Kogan, H. V., Elikan, A. B., Glaser, K. F., Bergmann, J. M., Raymond, L. M., Prado-Irwin, S. R., & Snow, J. W. (2023) · Microbiology Spectrum · doi:10.1128/spectrum.05194-22 · Cited by 8
Stress-induced loss of social resilience in honeybee colonies and its implications on fitness
Ulgezen, Z. N., van Langevelde, F., & van Dooremalen, C. (2024) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2023.2460 · Cited by 9
The missing links: Bee and non‐bee alpine visitor observation networks differ to pollen transport networks
Encinas‐Viso, F., Goodwin, E. K., Saunders, M. E., Florez, J., Lumbers, J., & Rader, R. (2024) · Ecological Entomology · doi:10.1111/een.13311 · Cited by 9
“This is not unexpected as social species, such as A . mellifera , are known to have high floral constancy when foraging (Seeley, 1985).”
Background
GVO-Pollenmonitoring zum Bt-Maisanbau im Bereich des NSG/FFH-Schutzgebietes Ruhlsdorfer Bruch
Hofmann, F., Epp, R., Kalchschmid, A., et al. (2008) · Environmental Sciences Europe · doi:10.1007/s12302-008-0016-2 · Cited by 9
Frequency of European and African-derived morphotypes and haplotypes in colonies of honey bees (Apis mellifera) from NW Mexico
Zamora, O., Dominguez, R., Gutiérrez, L. A., & Quezada‐Euán, J. J. G. (2008) · Apidologie · doi:10.1051/apido:2008016 · Cited by 10
Nectar profitability, not empty honey stores, stimulate recruitment and foraging in Melipona scutellaris (Apidae, Meliponini)
Schorkopf, D. L. P., Filho, G. F. D. S., Maia-Silva, C., et al. (2016) · Journal of Comparative Physiology A · doi:10.1007/s00359-016-1102-3 · Cited by 9
Queenless honey bees build infrastructure for direct reproduction until their new queen proves her worth
Smith, M. L. (2018) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/evo.13628 · Cited by 9
“If, however, the workers fail to rear a virgin queen, or the virgin queen fails to return from her mating flight, then the colony, now lacking eggs with which to rear another queen, becomes hopelessly queenless (Seeley 1985).”
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Honeybee colonies provide foragers with costly fuel to promote pollen collection
Harano, K. (2020) · Journal of Comparative Physiology A · doi:10.1007/s00359-020-01427-5 · Cited by 9
“In addition, when the outside air temperature is lower than inside the nest, the ventilation leads a loss of heat from the nest and could decrease the nest temperature which should be kept at 30–35 °C for proper brood development (reviewed by Seeley 1985; Winston 1987).”
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Adaptive tuning of the exploitation-exploration trade-off in four honey bee species
Young, A. M., Brockmann, A., & Dyer, F. C. (2021) · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1007/s00265-020-02938-6 · Cited by 9
The payoffs and tradeoffs of hygienic behavior: a five year field study on a local population of honey bees
Seltzer, R., Kahanov, P., Kamer, Y., et al. (2022) · Journal of Apicultural Research · doi:10.1080/00218839.2022.2048947 · Cited by 9
“Seeley (1985) raised a concern about a high cost for hygienic behavior due to the inadvertent removal of healthy brood from the colony.”
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A histochemical study of the hypopharangeal glands of the dwarf honey bees Apis andreniformis and Apis florea
Suwannapong, G., Seanbualuang, P., & Wongsiri, S. (2007) · Journal of Apicultural Research · doi:10.1080/00218839.2007.11101405 · Cited by 9
Practical science—research helping beekeepers 2. Colony manipulations for honey production
Delaplane, K. S. (1997) · Bee World · doi:10.1080/0005772x.1997.11099325 · Cited by 9
Genetic origins of honey bees (Apis mellifera) on Kangaroo Island and Norfolk Island (Australia) and the Kingdom of Tonga
Chapman, N. C., Sheng, J., Lim, J., et al. (2019) · Apidologie · doi:10.1007/s13592-018-0615-x · Cited by 9
“In the twentieth century, there was considerable interest in trying new strains and subspecies in various locations, leading to numerous imports into and out of subspecies’ natural ranges (Adam 1983; Seeley 1985; Cornuet 1986).”
Africanized honey bee response to differences in reward frequency
Çakmak, İ., Cook, P., Hollis, J. A., Shah, N., Huntley, D., van Valkenburg, D., & Wells, H. (1999) · Journal of Apicultural Research · doi:10.1080/00218839.1999.11101003 · Cited by 9
Olfactory discrimination between group odours in honey bees: Kin or nestmate recognition?
Moritz, R. F. A., & Hillesheim, E. (1990) · Insectes Sociaux · doi:10.1007/bf02223816 · Cited by 9
Collectively Self-Solving Problems
Deneubourg, J., Goss, S., Beckers, R., et al. (1991) · NATO ASI series. Series B : Physics · doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-3778-6_19 · Cited by 9
Phenomenal interface theory: a model for basal consciousness
Klein, C., & Barron, A. B. (2025) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2024.0301 · Cited by 8
The Dance Language
Duangphakdee, O., Hepburn, H. R., & Tautz, J. (2010) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16422-4_14 · Cited by 8
Training for Defense? From Stochastic Traits to Synchrony in Giant Honey Bees (Apis dorsata)
Weihmann, F., Hoetzl, T., & Kastberger, G. (2012) · Insects · doi:10.3390/insects3030833 · Cited by 8
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) size determines colony heat transfer when brood covering or distributed
Mitchell, D. M. (2022) · International Journal of Biometeorology · doi:10.1007/s00484-022-02308-z · Cited by 8
Discriminant conditioning of foragers in the Asian honey bees Apis cerana and A.dorsata
Wells, H., & Rathore, R. R. S. (1995) · Ecological Entomology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1995.tb00470.x · Cited by 8
Interpatch foraging in honeybees—rational decision making at secondary hubs based upon time and motivation
Najera, D. A., McCullough, E. L., & Jander, R. (2012) · Animal Cognition · doi:10.1007/s10071-012-0544-4 · Cited by 8
Optimizing the performance of a robot society in structured environment through Genetic Algorithms
Vainio, M., Schönberg, T., Halme, A. J., et al. (1995) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/3-540-59496-5_339 · Cited by 8
“ants and bees, which despite of their low level of intelligence have survived and found their niche (see [1] and [2] ).”
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Respiration rates in eggs of the honey bee,Apis mellifera
Mackasmiel, L., & Fell, R. D. (2000) · Journal of Apicultural Research · doi:10.1080/00218839.2000.11101032 · Cited by 8
Timing of drone flights and observations of other colony behaviors of Apis laboriosa in northern Vietnam
Pham, H. D., Phung, C. H., Bui, D. T., et al. (2023) · Apidologie · doi:10.1007/s13592-023-01014-y · Cited by 7
Increased complexity of worker CHC profiles in Apis dorsata correlates with nesting ecology
Maihoff, F., Bohlke, K., Brockmann, A., et al. (2022) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0271745 · Cited by 7
Shift in distribution of division of labour in chronically stressed honeybee colonies after perturbation
Ulgezen, Z. N., van Dooremalen, C., & van Langevelde, F. (2024) · Journal of Experimental Biology · doi:10.1242/jeb.247976 · Cited by 7
Structure of Fejes Tóth cells in natural honey bee combs
Yang, S., Gong, X., Zhou, D., et al. (2022) · Apidologie · doi:10.1007/s13592-022-00915-8 · Cited by 7
Behavioural response of drone honey bees, Apis mellifera carnica and Apis mellifera scutellata, to worker-produced pheromone components
Becker, M. M., Bruckner, D. J. R., & Crewe, R. M. (2000) · Journal of Apicultural Research · doi:10.1080/00218839.2000.11101035 · Cited by 7
Test Suite Optimization Using Chaotic Firefly Algorithm in Software Testing
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From gene list to gene network: Recognizing functional connections that regulate behavioral traits
Faragalla, K. M., Chernyshova, A. M., Gallo, A. J., & Thompson, G. (2018) · Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution · doi:10.1002/jez.b.22829 · Cited by 7
Comparative morphology of adult honey bees, Apis mellifera, reared in vitro or by their parental colony
Mortensen, A. N., Bruckner, S., Williams, G. R., et al. (2019) · Journal of Apicultural Research · doi:10.1080/00218839.2019.1616976 · Cited by 7
“In contrast, western honey bee, Apis mellifera L., larvae develop in a relatively constant environment within the broodnest of their parental colony (Moritz & Southwick, 1992; Schmickl & Crailsheim, 2004; Seeley, 1985; Winston, 1991).”
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Genetic Characterization of Exotic Commercial Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Populations in Thailand Reveals High Genetic Diversity and Low Population Substructure
Rattanawannee, A., Duangphakdee, O., Chanchao, C., Teerapakpinyo, C., Warrit, N., Wongsiri, S., & Oldroyd, B. P. (2019) · Journal of Economic Entomology · doi:10.1093/jee/toz298 · Cited by 7
“(1978): M (West European: KY926884_1 and AY114459_1), A (African: KJ601784_1 and MG552700_1), O (Middle Eastern: AY114472_1), and C (East Mediterranean: AY114462_1 and KX908209_1).”
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Profile of a Solitary Bee:Andrena Fulva
Paxton, R. J. (1991) · Bee World · doi:10.1080/0005772x.1991.11099066 · Cited by 7
Evaluation of sampling methods for determining infestation rates of the tracheal mite (Acarapis woodi R.) in colonies of the honey bee (Apis mellifera): Spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal effects
Calderone, N. W., & Shimanuki, H. (1992) · Experimental and Applied Acarology · doi:10.1007/bf01246569 · Cited by 7
Bio-inspired Computation Algorithms
Li, P., & Duan, H. (2013) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41196-0_2 · Cited by 7
“Many studies (Seeley 1985) have investigated the foraging behavior of each individual bee and what types of external information (such as odor, location information in the waggle dance, the presence of other bees at the source or between the hive and the source) and internal information (such as remembered source loca…”
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Behavior during artifically induced swarm emigration in an old world polistine wasp,Ropalidia romandi (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
Kojima, J. (1994) · Journal of Ethology · doi:10.1007/bf02350073 · Cited by 7
Site-Specific and Regional Monitoring with Honey Bees: Case Study Comparisons
Bromenshenk, J. J. (1992) · Ecological Indicators · doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-4659-7_39 · Cited by 7
“Bees forage a variable mosaic of floral patches throughout a vast area around the hive (Seeley, 1985).”
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HONEY BEE CLEANSING FLIGHTS…JUST CLEANSING?
Drummond, F. (2022) · Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society · doi:10.2317/0022-8567-94.2.158 · Cited by 6
“In order to purge their bodies of excrement, they emerge from the hive on warm sunny days (> 4-10 °C) during periods of increasing sunlight during mid-late winter and defecate in the vicinity of the hive (Farrar, 1944; Kronenberg and Heller; 1982; Seeley, 1985; Węgrzynowicz et al., 2014).”
Background
Ecological comparison of native (Apis mellifera mellifera) and hybrid (Buckfast) honeybee drones in southwestern Sweden indicates local adaptation
Schaumann, F., Norrström, N., Niklasson, M., et al. (2024) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0308831 · Cited by 6
The choosing of sleeping position in the overnight aggregation by the solitary bees Amegilla florea urens in Iriomote Island of Japan
Yokoi, T., Idogawa, N., Kandori, I., et al. (2017) · Die Naturwissenschaften · doi:10.1007/s00114-017-1438-8 · Cited by 6
“In honeybees and bumblebees, on the other hand, workers return to their own nests for safety during the night, decreasing the frequency of attacks by natural enemies and escaping from severe weather conditions in addition to storing sufficient food resources (e.g. Goulson 2003; Seeley 1985).”
The Electronic Bee Spy: Eavesdropping on Honeybee Communication via Electrostatic Field Recordings
Paffhausen, B. H., Petrasch, J., Greggers, U., et al. (2021) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2021.647224 · Cited by 6
Slow-Fast Cognitive Phenotypes and Their Significance for Social Behavior: What Can We Learn From Honeybees?
Naug, D., & Tait, C. D. (2021) · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.766414 · Cited by 8
“The two cavity nesting species, A. mellifera and A. cerana, have been described as “fast” due to their shorter lifespan, higher metabolic rate and faster behavioral “tempo” compared to the two open nesting species, A dorsata and A. florea, described as “slow” (Seeley, 1985; Dyer and Seeley, 1991).”
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Under pressure: the effect of long-term fungal infection on the encapsulation response in ants
Orbán-Bakk, K., Marczin, M. J., Gal, L., et al. (2022) · Insectes Sociaux · doi:10.1007/s00040-022-00879-z · Cited by 6
“Age groups might behave differentially within a social insect colony when challenged (Seeley 1985; Natsopoulou et al.”
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Recognition of caste and mating status maintains monogyny in the ant Aphaenogaster senilis
Ruel, C., Hefetz, A., Cerdá, X., et al. (2013) · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1007/s00265-013-1558-x · Cited by 6
Human reproductive assistance
Hill, K. R., & Hurtado, A. M. (2012) · Nature · doi:10.1038/483160a · Cited by 7
Visitation and gnawing behaviour of Japanese honeybee Apis cerana japonica to lettuce
Yokoi, T. (2014) · Apidologie · doi:10.1007/s13592-014-0340-z · Cited by 6
Honeybee methodology, cognition, and theory: recording local directional decisions in interpatch foraging and interpreting their theoretical relevance
Najera, D. A., & Jander, R. (2011) · Animal Cognition · doi:10.1007/s10071-011-0450-1 · Cited by 6
Bioassay of the mandibular gland pheromones of Apis florea on the foraging activity of dwarf honey bees
Suwannapong, G., Benbow, M. E., Chinokul, C., et al. (2011) · Journal of Apicultural Research · doi:10.3896/ibra.1.50.3.05 · Cited by 6
Temperature-dependent modelling of adult performance of small hive beetle Aethina tumida Murray (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Noor-ul-Ane, M., & Jung, C. (2021) · Journal of Apicultural Research · doi:10.1080/00218839.2021.1888538 · Cited by 6
“SHB adults reproduce mostly inside the honey bee hive, where they experience relatively mild temperature variations (Meikle & Patt, 2011) since honey bees regulate the thermal environment inside the hive for brood rearing and overwintering (Kim & Jung, 2015; Seeley, 1985).”
Background
Test Suite Optimization Using Chaotic Firefly Algorithm in Software Testing
Pandey, A., & Banerjee, S. (2020) · IGI Global eBooks · doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-3016-0.ch032 · Cited by 6
Using Video Footage for Observing Honey Bee Behaviour at Hive Entrances
Crawford, E., Leidenberger, S., Norrström, N., et al. (2022) · Bee World · doi:10.1080/0005772x.2022.2106739 · Cited by 6
Wild Bees in Cultivated City Gardens
MacIvor, J. S. (2016) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-017-7453-6_15 · Cited by 6
The Ecology of Trade
Moyle, B. J. (2000) · Journal of Bioeconomics · doi:10.1023/a:1011414717756 · Cited by 6
Leader-follower flocking experiments using estimated flocking center
Wang, Z., Gu, D., & Hu, H. (2009) · International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation · doi:10.1109/icma.2009.5246636 · Cited by 6
“Honeybee swarms can be guided to a new site by a few individuals [3].”
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Why have endemic pollinators declined on the Ogasawara Islands?
Abe, T., Makino, S., & Okochi, I. (2010) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-4-431-53859-2_13 · Cited by 6
Bibliography of the Asian Species of Honeybees
Hepburn, H. R., & Hepburn, C. (2010) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16422-4_20 · Cited by 6
Conflict over caste fate in insect societies
Ferreira, H. M., Pietro, V. D., Oi, C. A., et al. (2025) · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · doi:10.1111/brv.70107 · Cited by 5
“This is similar to honeybees, where 15 – 25 queens may be produced annually compared with about 150,000 workers (Seeley, 1985; Winston, 1987), corresponding to 0.010 – 0.016% of the female brood.”
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Melissopalynological analysis of Apis honey from northern districts of West Bengal
Saha, S., Nath, R., Dey, A., et al. (2023) · Grana · doi:10.1080/00173134.2023.2273542 · Cited by 5
“It is based on the fact that certain natural raw materials like pollen and nectar are utilised by honey bees which can be identi ﬁ ed from honey (Seeley 1985).”
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Pollen columns and a wax canopy in a first nest description of Bombus (Cullumanobombus) morrisoni (Apidae)
Koch, J. B. U., & Cane, J. H. (2022) · Apidologie · doi:10.1007/s13592-022-00943-4 · Cited by 5
The organizational impact of chronic heat: diffuse brood comb and decreased carbohydrate stores in honey bee colonies
Weinberg, I. P., Wetzel, J., Kuchar, E. P., et al. (2023) · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1119452 · Cited by 5
Treating newly split Apis mellifera honey bee colonies with organic miticides—an opportunity for Integrated Pest Management of Varroa destructor mites (Mesostigmata: Varroidae)
Aurell, D., Bruckner, S., Steury, T. D., et al. (2025) · Journal of Economic Entomology · doi:10.1093/jee/toaf126 · Cited by 5
“We used hive weight as a proxy for honey production as honey is the heaviest resource in a honey bee nest (Seeley 1985).”
Moving without a purpose: an experimental study of swarm guidance in the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera Linnaeus)
Makinson, J. C., & Beekman, M. (2014) · Journal of Experimental Biology · doi:10.1242/jeb.103283 · Cited by 5
“…and Franks, 1995; Franks and Deneubourg, 1997; Karsai and Pénzes, 1993), focus their foraging efforts on the best food sources (Biesmeijer and Ermers, 1999; Bonser et al., 1998; Pasteels et al., 1987; Seeley, 1985) and coordinate group defence against predators and intruders (Camazine, 1985).”
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Assessment of Persistence of Hybrids between Alien Pima Cotton,Gossypium barbadense(Malvaceae), and Endemic Hawaiian Cotton,G. tomentosum, in Hawai'i1
Lehman, A., Pender, R. J., Morden, C. W., et al. (2014) · Pacific Science · doi:10.2984/68.1.8 · Cited by 5
“…on O‘ahu, Maui, and Kaho‘olawe were visited by large carpenter bees (Xylocopa sp.) and honeybees (Apis mellifera), both known pollinators of Pima cotton (Umbeck et al. 1991, Keasar 2010) and both known to fly many kilometers to forage (Seeley 1985, Proctor et al. 1996, Pasquet et al. 2008).”
Background
Transgenic rapeseed: environmental release and its biosafety relevance in China
Lu, C., Xiao, L., & Wu, Y. (2005) · Chinese Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology · doi:10.1079/cjb200580 · Cited by 5
“Generally bees can forage up to 2 km from their hive; sometimes the distance can be even up to 10 km (Seeley, 1985).”
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Lotmaria Passim As Third Parasite Gastrointestinal Tract of Honey Bees Living in Tree Trunk
Michalczyk, M., Bancerz‐Kisiel, A., & Sokół, R. (2020) · Journal of Apicultural Science · doi:10.2478/jas-2020-0012 · Cited by 5
Autophagy Is Required to Sustain Increased Intestinal Cell Proliferation during Phenotypic Plasticity Changes in Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Guo, Y., Hu, R., Li, N., Li, N., Wu, J., Yu, H., Tan, J., Li, Z., & Xu, S. (2023) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · doi:10.3390/ijms24031926 · Cited by 5
Honey bee guards recognise allospecific intruders via “different odours” not “harmful-intruder odours”
Kärcher, M. H., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2010) · Journal of Apicultural Research · doi:10.3896/ibra.1.49.3.07 · Cited by 5
Insects and Flowers: The Beauty of Mutualism
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Classification and biology
Davies, R. G. (1988) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0508-0_4 · Cited by 5
Worker Policing
Wenseleers, T., Oi, C. A., & Oliveira, R. C. (2021) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-28102-1_137 · Cited by 5
Dwarf Honey Bees (Apis (Micrapis))
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Differences in pollen preferences between young worker bees and mature foragers (Apis mellifera L.)
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“Mature workers (about 3 weeks of age) leave the nest to collect resources that would be shared among colony members (Rösch 1925; Lindauer 1952; Seeley 1985; Winston 1987).”
How India Changed My Ideas About Honey Bees
Brockmann, A. (2023) · Journal of the Indian Institute of Science · doi:10.1007/s41745-023-00412-6 · Cited by 4
“Thomas D. Seeley, 1985 1 For many people but also for many researchers, the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera , is the only honey bee there is.”
Tropical and montane Apis cerana show distinct dance–distance calibration curves
Kumar, A. K. B., George, E. A., & Brockmann, A. (2024) · Journal of Experimental Biology · doi:10.1242/jeb.247510 · Cited by 4
Energetic Aspects of Flight
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The End of the Republic
Betzig, L. L. (2009) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02725-3_7 · Cited by 4
Mapping giant honey bee nests in Palawan, Philippines through a transdisciplinary approach
Matias, D. M., Stellmacher, T., Borgemeister, C., et al. (2017) · Development in Practice · doi:10.1080/09614524.2017.1349735 · Cited by 4
“Honey production depends on floral resources available in the forest, while giant honey bee nesting depends on the availability of suitable trees (Koeniger, Koeniger, and Tingek 2010; Seeley 1985).”
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No direct contact needed for drones to shorten workers lifespan in honey bee
Łangowska, A., & Zduniak, P. (2019) · Journal of Apicultural Research · doi:10.1080/00218839.2019.1644939 · Cited by 4
“These situations result in drones being permitted to overwinter with the colony (Seeley, 1985).”
Background
A blend of formic acid, benzoic acid, and aliphatic alkanes mediates alarm recruitment responses in western carpenter ants, Camponotus modoc
Renyard, A., Gries, R. M., & Gries, G. (2020) · Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata · doi:10.1111/eea.12901 · Cited by 5
“Consequently, nest defense is of paramount importance (Seeley, 1985; Ayasse & Paxton, 2002).”
Background
No statistical evidence that honey bees competitively reduced wild bee abundance in the Munich Botanic Garden—a comment on Renner et al. (2021)
Harder, L. D., & Miksha, R. M. (2022) · Oecologia · doi:10.1007/s00442-022-05112-z · Cited by 4
“Instead, local Apis forager abundance probably depended on the dynamics of floral resource density within and outside the Garden and/or favorable weather for daily individual foraging and seasonal hive productivity (see Seeley 1985; Winston 1987; Clarke and Robert 2018).”
Background
Influence of anomalous agents on the dynamics of an active system
Kryuchkov, N. P., Nasyrov, A. D., Gursky, K. D., et al. (2024) · Physical review. E · doi:10.1103/physreve.109.034601 · Cited by 4
Progress towards an Intelligent Beehive: Building an Intelligent Environment to Promote the Well-Being of Honeybees
Howard, D., Hunter, G., Duran, O., et al. (2016) · International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE) · doi:10.1109/ie.2016.60 · Cited by 4
“The cognitive abilities of honeybee colonies are most fully expounded by the works of Thomas Seeley, especially in his books " Honeybee Ecology " [1] and " The Wisdom of the Hive " [2].”
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Bio-Inspired Computational Intelligence and Its Application to Software Testing
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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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