Nestmate recognition is a widespread phenomenon and evolutionary important trait in the
social insects. Yet evidence accumulates that the responses to non‐nestmates varies more …

Two stingless bee species, Tetragonula carbonaria and Tetragonula hockingsi, engage in
extreme inter-colony fights, both within and between species. Inter species fights can result …

Social insects have high levels of cooperation and division of labor. In bumble bees this is
partly size-based, with larger bees performing tasks outside the nest and smaller bees …

Stingless bees use chemical signals to communicate nestmates the location of rich food
sources. Such information may be intercepted by conspecifics from other colonies. In this …

Abstract Nannotrigona testaceicornis (Lepeletier, 1836) is a stingless bee with wide
distribution in the Brazilian territory. Despite its importance in meliponiculture and …

As the industrialization of agriculture and other environmental stressors threaten honey
bees, stingless bees, and beekeeper livelihoods throughout the world, beekeepers and …

Bee pollination benefits the productivity of a wide variety of fruit crops worldwide. Although
the western honey bee Apis mellifera is the dominant pollinator of most crops, global …

Defence against predators is fundamental to increasing an organism's fitness. My thesis
explores this central theme in behavioural ecology using stingless bees as study organisms …

The living world is replete with easily observed structural adaptations (eg teeth, claws, and
stingers), but behavioral adaptations are no less impressive. Conspecific aggression can be …

Worker drift, a behavior where individuals leave their natal colony to reside in another
conspecific colony, has been given both adaptive and maladaptive explanations in social …