Publisher Summary This chapter compares collective decisions in hives and in ant nests by
relating the properties of recruiting signals to the foraging strategies displayed by these two …

Stingless bees (Meliponini) are the largest and most diverse group of social bees, yet their
largely tropical distribution means that they are less studied than their relatives, the bumble …

Since the seminal work of Lindauer and Kerr (1958), many stingless bees have been known
to effectively recruit nestmates to food sources. Recent research clarified properties of …

Division of labor among workers is common in insect societies and is thought to be important
in their ecological success. In most species, division of labor is based on age (temporal …

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 …

The stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) have evolved sophisticated
communication systems that allow foragers to recruit nestmates to good resources. Over the …

Chemical compounds play a key role in the communication systems of many living
organisms. Information-carrying molecules, known as semiochemicals, have been classified …

Trigona Jurine, 1807 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) is a Neotropical genus of stingless
bees that is most diverse in the Amazon biome. The subgenus T.(Nostotrigona) was recently …

Bees are well known for being industrious pollinators. Some species, however, have taken
to invading the nests of other colonies to steal food, nest material or the nest site itself …

The colour vision of bees has been extensively analysed in honeybees and bumblebees,
but few studies consider the visual perception of stingless bees (Meliponini). In a five-stage …