Crowding honeybee colonies in apiaries can increase their vulnerability to the deadly ectoparasite Varroa destructor TD Seeley, ML Smith Apidologie 46, 716-727, 2015 | 162 | 2015 |
The Honey Bee Parasite Nosema ceranae: Transmissible via Food Exchange? ML Smith Public Library of Science 7 (8), e43319, 2012 | 138 | 2012 |
How honey bee colonies survive in the wild: testing the importance of small nests and frequent swarming JC Loftus, ML Smith, TD Seeley PloS one 11 (3), e0150362, 2016 | 112 | 2016 |
A scientist like me: demographic analysis of biology textbooks reveals both progress and long-term lags S Wood, JA Henning, L Chen, T McKibben, ML Smith, M Weber, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1929), 20200877, 2020 | 76 | 2020 |
Varroa destructor mites can nimbly climb from flowers onto foraging honey bees DT Peck, ML Smith, TD Seeley PLoS one 11 (12), e0167798, 2016 | 64 | 2016 |
Social networks predict the life and death of honey bees B Wild, DM Dormagen, A Zachariae, ML Smith, KS Traynor, D Brockmann, ... Nature communications 12 (1), 1110, 2021 | 63 | 2021 |
The behavioral regulation of thirst, water collection and water storage in honey bee colonies MM Ostwald, ML Smith, TD Seeley Journal of Experimental Biology 219 (14), 2156-2165, 2016 | 55 | 2016 |
Promiscuous honey bee queens increase colony productivity by suppressing worker selfishness HR Mattila, HK Reeve, ML Smith Current Biology 22 (21), 2027-2031, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
A critical number of workers in a honeybee colony triggers investment in reproduction ML Smith, MM Ostwald, JC Loftus, TD Seeley Naturwissenschaften 101, 783-790, 2014 | 45 | 2014 |
Honey bee sociometry: tracking honey bee colonies and their nest contents from colony founding until death ML Smith, MM Ostwald, TD Seeley Insectes Sociaux 63, 553-563, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
Imperfect comb construction reveals the architectural abilities of honeybees ML Smith, N Napp, KH Petersen Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (31), e2103605118, 2021 | 36 | 2021 |
The cues of colony size: how honey bees sense that their colony is large enough to begin to invest in reproduction ML Smith, PA Koenig, JM Peters Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (9), 1597-1605, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
Adaptive tuning of an extended phenotype: honeybees seasonally shift their honey storage to optimize male production ML Smith, MM Ostwald, TD Seeley Animal Behaviour 103, 29-33, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
Behavioral variation across the days and lives of honey bees ML Smith, JD Davidson, B Wild, DM Dormagen, T Landgraf, ID Couzin Iscience 25 (9), 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
Honey bee sting pain index by body location ML Smith PeerJ 2, e338, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
Do honeybees use the directional information in round dances to find nearby food sources? SR Griffin, ML Smith, TD Seeley Animal Behaviour 83 (6), 1319-1324, 2012 | 13 | 2012 |
Caught in an evolutionary trap: worker honey bees that have drifted into foreign colonies do not invest in ovary activation ML Smith, KJ Loope Insectes Sociaux 63, 61-65, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
Five decades of misunderstanding in the social Hymenoptera: a review and meta‐analysis of Michener's paradox RL Jeanne, KJ Loope, AM Bouwma, EV Nordheim, ML Smith Biological reviews 97 (4), 1559-1611, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
Hierarchical approach for comparing collective behavior across scales: cellular systems to honey bee colonies JD Davidson, M Vishwakarma, ML Smith Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 581222, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
Queenless honey bees build infrastructure for direct reproduction until their new queen proves her worth ML Smith Evolution 72 (12), 2810-2817, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |