Highlights•Ecologists need technological solutions for acquiring large datasets in the
field.•Field-deployed e-ecology tools are constrained by power draw and reliability …

Hive bees provide essential pollination services to human agriculture. Managed honey bees
in particular pollinate many crops, but also create honey and other bee products that are …

Honey bee foragers must supply their colony with a balance of pollen and nectar to sustain
optimal colony development. Inter-individual behavioural variability among foragers is …

Insects use path integration (PI) to maintain a home vector, but can also store and recall
vector-memories that take them from home to a food location, and even allow them to take …

Highlights•Bumble bees often follow linear features like paths and roads to navigate.•The
structure of exploration flights is shaped by landscape features.•Bees use experience of …

A major difficulty in studying the behaviour of social insects, such as bees, is to collect
quantitative data on large numbers of individuals and over long periods of time, in …

Understanding how pollinators move across space is key to understanding plant mating
patterns. Bees are typically assumed to search for flowers randomly or using simple …

Foraging for food is an integral part of animal survival. In small insects and invertebrates,
multisensory information and optimized locomotion strategies are used to effectively forage …

Central place foragers depart from and return to a central location with enough resources for
themselves, and in many cases, for the group. Honey bees and bumble bees are eusocial …

How animals explore and acquire knowledge from the environment is a key question in
movement ecology. For pollinators that feed on multiple small replenishing nectar resources …