Who needs ‘lazy’ workers? Inactive workers act as a ‘reserve’ labor force replacing active workers, but inactive workers are not replaced when they are removed

Resilience in social insect infrastructure systems

(2016) Eliza J. T. Middleton et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Lazy workers are necessary for long-term sustainability in insect societies

(2016) Eisuke Hasegawa et al.   Scientific Reports

Limited flexibility and unusual longevity shape forager allocation in the Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius)

(2015) Christina L. Kwapich et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Workers ‘specialized’ on inactivity: Behavioral consistency of inactive workers and their role in task allocation

(2015) Daniel Charbonneau et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Latitudinal variation in behaviors linked to risk tolerance is driven by nest-site competition and spatial distribution in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus

(2015) S. E. Bengston et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Multicellular agency: an organizational view

(2015) Argyris Arnellos et al.   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Cost to the cavity-nest ant Temnothorax crassispinus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of overwintering aboveground

(2014) Slawomir MITRUS   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

‘Lazy’ in nature: ant colony time budgets show high ‘inactivity’ in the field as well as in the lab

(2014) D. Charbonneau et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm

(2014) M. Rubenstein et al.   SCIENCE

Social context influences the initiation and threshold of thermoregulatory behaviour in honeybees

(2013) Chelsea N. Cook et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Bumblebee response thresholds and body size: does worker diversity increase colony performance?

(2013) Jennifer M. Jandt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Demography, demand, death, and the seasonal allocation of labor in the Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius)

(2013) Christina L. Kwapich et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Starvation endurance in the antTemnothorax nylanderidepends on group size, body size and access to larvae

(2013) ANDREAS P. MODLMEIER et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

How is activity distributed among and within tasks in Temnothorax ants?

(2012) Noa Pinter-Wollman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Individual bumblebees vary in response to disturbance: a test of the defensive reserve hypothesis

(2012) J. M. Jandt et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The mechanism underlying the regulation of work-related behaviors in the monomorphic ant, Myrmica kotokui

(2012) Yasunori Ishii et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Developmental Evolution in Social Insects: Regulatory Networks from Genes to Societies

(2012) TIMOTHY A. LINKSVAYER et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

An Evolutionary Perspective on Self-Organized Division of Labor in Social Insects

(2011) Ana Duarte et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Competition and cooperation: bumblebee spatial organization and division of labor may affect worker reproduction late in life

(2011) Jennifer M. Jandt et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Structure and formation of ant transportation networks

(2011) T. Latty et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Behavioural Variability and Development of Cataglyphis cursor Ant Workers (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)1)

(2010) Javier Retana et al.   ETHOLOGY

Social Organization of Cataglyphis cursor Ant Colonies (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): Inter-, and Intraspecific Comparisons

(2010) Javier Retana et al.   ETHOLOGY

How site fidelity leads to individual differences in the foraging activity of harvester ants

(2009) Blair D. Beverly et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Structure and resilience of the social network in an insect colony as a function of colony size

(2009) Dhruba Naug   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Integrated workforce capacity and inventory management under labour supply uncertainty

(2008) M. Fazil Pac et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH

Specialization Does Not Predict Individual Efficiency in an Ant

(2008) Anna Dornhaus   PLOS BIOLOGY