Collective behaviours, such as flocking in birds or decision making by bee colonies, are
some of the most intriguing behavioural phenomena in the animal kingdom. The study of …

Honey bees (Apis sp.) are the only known bee genus that uses nest-based communication
to provide nest-mates with information about the location of resources, the so-called “dance …

Communication is a fundamental feature of animal societies and helps their members to
solve the challenges they encounter, from exploiting food sources to fighting enemies or …

Efficient communication is highly important for the evolutionary success of social animals.
Honeybees (genus Apis) are unique in that they communicate the spatial information of …

Many natural products have been so far tested regarding their potency to inhibit vascular
smooth muscle cell proliferation, a process involved in atherosclerosis, pulmonary …

Bees dance to deliver food vectors that contain information regarding distance gauging and
spatial orientation. The eastern honey bee, Apis cerana, also transmits this vector …

During reproductive swarming, a honeybee swarm needs to decide on a new nest site and
then move to the chosen site collectively. Most studies of swarming and nest-site selection …

Foraging honeybees face numerous navigational challenges, requiring cognitive abilities for
locating and returning to important locations, such as flower patches or the colony hive, that …

Honey bees estimate distances to food sources using image motion experienced on the
flight path and they use this measure to tune the waggle phase duration in their dance …

The tropical stingless bees have evolved intricate communication systems to recruit
nestmates to food locations. Some species are able to accurately communicate the location …