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Title: | Collective decision making in the red dwarf honeybee Apis florea: do the bees simply follow the flowers? | Contributor(s): | Makinson, J C (author); Schaerf, Timothy (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2017 | DOI: | 10.1007/s00040-017-0577-4 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22773 | Abstract: | Most studies on collective decision making in honeybees have been performed on the cavity-nesting Western honeybee, Apis mellifera. In more recent years, the open-nesting red dwarf honeybee Apis florea has been developed as a model organism of collective decision making in the context of nest-site selection. These studies have shown that the specifics of the species’ nest-site requirements affect collective decision making. In particular, when potential nesting sites are abundant, as is the case in A. florea, the process of collective decision making can be simplified. Here, we ask if A. florea simply follows the availability of floral resources in their environment when deciding on an area to move into. We determined the locations danced for by three colonies the day before, of and after reproductive swarming. Our results suggest that colonies of A. florea indeed track the availability of forage in their environment and that swarms move in the general direction of forage rather than towards a specific nest site. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Insectes Sociaux, 64(4), p. 557-566 | Publisher: | Springer | Place of Publication: | Switzerland | ISSN: | 1420-9098 0020-1812 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 010202 Biological Mathematics 060201 Behavioural Ecology 060801 Animal Behaviour |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 490102 Biological mathematics 310301 Behavioural ecology 310901 Animal behaviour |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970101 Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences 280118 Expanding knowledge in the mathematical sciences |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Science and Technology |
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