Changing of the guard: mixed specialization and flexibility in nest defense (Tetragonisca angustula)

Experienced individuals influence the thermoregulatory fanning behaviour in honey bee colonies

(2018) Rachael E. Kaspar et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Organization enhances collective vigilance in the hovering guards of Tetragonisca angustula bees

(2018) Kyle Shackleton et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Colony-level non-associative plasticity of alarm responses in the stingless honey bee, Tetragonisca angustula

(2018) Christopher M. Jernigan et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Age-based soldier polyethism: old termite soldiers take more risks than young soldiers

(2018) Saki Yanagihara et al.   Biology Letters

Ambush Predation of Stingless Bees (Tetragonisca angustula) by the Solitary-Foraging Ant Ectatomma tuberculatum

(2018) Madeleine M. Ostwald et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

Repeated evolution of soldier sub-castes suggests parasitism drives social complexity in stingless bees

(2017) Christoph Grüter et al.   Nature Communications

Soldiers in a Stingless Bee

(2016) Benedikt Hammel et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Task switching is associated with temporal delays inTemnothorax rugatulusants

(2016) Gavin M. Leighton et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Local differences in parasitism and competition shape defensive investment in a polymorphic eusocial bee

(2016) Francisca H. I. D. Segers et al.   ECOLOGY

Fitness costs of worker specialization for ant societies

(2016) Evelien Jongepier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Soldier production in a stingless bee depends on rearing location and nurse behaviour

(2015) Francisca H. I. D. Segers et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Diversity in identity: behavioral flexibility, dominance, and age polyethism in a clonal ant

(2015) Abel Bernadou et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Worker senescence and the sociobiology of aging in ants

(2014) Ysabel Milton Giraldo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Appetite for self-destruction: suicidal biting as a nest defense strategy in Trigona stingless bees

(2014) Kyle Shackleton et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The Soldiers in Societies: Defense, Regulation, and Evolution

(2014) Li Tian et al.   International Journal of Biological Sciences

Age-related plasticity in the synaptic ultrastructure of neurons in the mushroom body calyx of the adult honeybee Apis mellifera

(2012) Claudia Groh et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

A morphologically specialized soldier caste improves colony defense in a neotropical eusocial bee

(2012) C. Gruter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The role of wax and resin in the nestmate recognition system of a stingless bee, Tetragonisca angustula

(2011) Sam M. Jones et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Hovering guards of the stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula increase colony defensive perimeter as shown by intra- and inter-specific comparisons

(2011) Jelle S. van Zweden et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

What causes wing wear in foraging bumble bees?

(2011) D. J. Foster et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Natural History of Nest Defence in a Stingless Bee, Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille) (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with Two Distinct Types of Entrance Guards

(2011) C Grüter et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Leaf-cutter ants with worn mandibles cut half as fast, spend twice the energy, and tend to carry instead of cut

(2010) Robert M. S. Schofield et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Standing and hovering guards of the stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula complement each other in entrance guarding and intruder recognition

(2009) Martin H. Kärcher et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Noise improves collective decision-making by ants in dynamic environments

(2009) A. Dussutour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Food unpredictability drives both generalism and social foraging: a game theoretical model

(2008) Sarah E. Overington et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Specialization Does Not Predict Individual Efficiency in an Ant

(2008) Anna Dornhaus   PLOS BIOLOGY