Reproduction by colony fission, or swarming, is a spectacular example of a behavior that
requires the simultaneous coordination of the activities of thousands of honey bee workers …

Migration studies include spectacular examples from vertebrates, such as birds, bats, and
turtles. However, insect migration studies have lagged due to a restrictive definition of what …

We propose a self-adaptive communication strategy for controlling the heading direction of a
swarm of mobile robots during flocking. We consider the problem where a small group of …

Highlights•Honeybees dance to recruit nestmates to food sources.•The dance encodes both
distance and directional information.•The dance can be rather inaccurate, especially when …

I propose an agenda for empirical research on decision, choice, decision‐makers, and
decision‐making qua social facts. Given society S, group G, or field F, I make a twofold …

In decision making, speed–accuracy trade-offs are well known and often inevitable because
accuracy depends on being well informed and gathering information takes time. However …

Groups of animals coordinate remarkable, coherent, movement patterns during periods of
collective motion. Such movement patterns include the toroidal mills seen in fish shoals …

All honeybees use the waggle dance to recruit nestmates. Studies on the dance precision of
Apis mellifera have shown that the dance is often imprecise. Two hypotheses have been put …

Some nectars, such of that of the thunder god vine, Tripterygium hypoglaucum, contain
alkaloids that are mildly toxic to honeybees, Apis spp. Given a choice, foragers prefer …

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 …