Abstract Information exchange of environmental cues facilitates decision-making processes
among members of insect societies. In honeybee foraging, it is unknown how the odor cues …

Transfer of information about food source characteristics within insect societies is essential
to colony-foraging success. The food odor communicated within honeybee hives has been …

Honey bee colonies use a number of signals and information cues to coordinate collective
foraging. The best known signal is the waggle dance by which dancers provide nest-mates …

Most foraging honeybees specialize in either pollen or nectar collection, although some do
alternate between both resources. Little is known about this behavioral plasticity and the …

To understand the foraging strategy of honeybee colonies, we measured certain temporal
and spatial patterns in the foraging activities of a colony living in a temperate deciduous …

Food scents circulating inside beehives influence foraging preferences in the field. However,
the persistence and nature of the prior experience that lead to this biased response remain …

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) use cues and signals to recruit nestmates to profitable food
sources. Here, we investigated whether the type of resource advertised within the colony (ie …

Food quality is a relevant characteristic to be transferred within eusocial insect colonies
because its evaluation improves the collective foraging efficiency. In honeybees, colony …

Floral scents learned during the waggle dance, a signal through which honeybees provide
nestmates with spatial information on foraging sites, are an important component of …

The foragers in honeybee colonies cooperate by sharing information about rich sources of
food. This study examines three hypotheses about the benefits of this cooperation:(H1) it …