Dancing bees improve colony foraging success as long-term benefits outweigh short-term costs.

Autor: Roger Schürch, Christoph Grüter

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 8, p e104660 (2014)

Waggle dancing bees provide nestmates with spatial information about high quality resources. Surprisingly, attempts to quantify the benefits of this encoded spatial information have failed to find positive effects on colony foraging success under man

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Comparing alternative methods for holding virgin honey bee queens for one week in mailing cages before mating.

Autor: Gianluigi Bigio, Christoph Grüter, Francis L W Ratnieks

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 11, p e50150 (2012)

In beekeeping, queen honey bees are often temporarily kept alive in cages. We determined the survival of newly-emerged virgin honey bee queens every day for seven days in an experiment that simultaneously investigated three factors: queen cage type (

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Correlated expression of phenotypic and extended phenotypic traits across stingless bee species: worker eye morphology, foraging behaviour, and nest entrance architecture

Autor: Francisca H. I. D. Segers, Christoph Grüter, Cristiano Menezes, Sidnei Mateus, Francis L. W. Ratnieks

Publikováno v: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA-Alice)
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
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Segers, F H I D, Grueter, C, Menezes, C, Mateus, S & Ratnieks, F 2022, ' Correlated expression of phenotypic and extended phenotypic traits across stingless bee species : worker eye morphology, foraging behaviour, and nest entrance architecture ', Journal of Apicultural Research, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 598-608 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2022.2114711

Stingless bees are the most species-rich group of eusocial bees and show great diversity in behaviour, ecology, nest architecture, colony size, and worker morphology. How this variation relates to varying selection pressures and constraints is not we

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When should bees be flower constant? An agent-based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions

Autor: Lucy Hayes, Christoph Grüter

Publikováno v: Hayes, L & Grueter, C 2022, ' When should bees be flower constant? An agent-based model highlights the importance of social information and foraging conditions ', Journal of Animal Ecology . https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13861

Many bee species show flower constancy,i.e. a tendency to visit flowers of one type during a foraging trip. Flower constancy is important for plant reproduction, but whether bees also benefit from flower constancy remains unclear. Social bees, which

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https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498534

Tandem communication improves ant foraging success in a highly competitive tropical habitat

Autor: N. Goß, F. S. do Nascimento, Rodrigo M. Feitosa, A. Koch, Christoph Grüter, Simone M. Glaser

Publikováno v: Glaser, S M, Feitosa, R, Koch, A, Goss, N, Nascimento, F & Grueter, C 2021, ' Tandem communication improves ant foraging success in a highly competitive tropical habitat ', Insectes Sociaux, vol. 68, pp. 161–172 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-021-00810-y

Tropical ants experience intense intra- and interspecific competition for food sources, which influences their activity pattern and foraging strategies. Even though different ant species can coexist through spatial and temporal niche partitioning, di

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-021-00810-y