The field of biology has seen tremendous technological progress in recent years, fuelled by
the exponential growth in processing power and high‐level computing, and the rise of global …

All social insects defend their colony from predators, parasites, and pathogens. In Oster and
Wilson's classic work, they posed one of the key paradoxes about defense in social insects …

In honey bee colonies, workers generally change tasks with age (from brood care, to nest
work, to foraging). While these trends are well established, our understanding of how …

A honey bee colony functions as an integrated collective, with individuals coordinating their
behaviour to adapt and respond to unexpected disturbances. Nest homeostasis is critical for …

The honey bee genome has the capacity to produce three phenotypically distinct organisms
(two diploid female castes: queen and worker, and a haploid male drone). Previous studies …

Bees depend on flowering plants for their nutrition, and reduced availability of floral
resources is a major driver of declines in both managed and wild bee populations …

Highlights•Integrated omics facilitate neuropeptide identification and spatiotemporal
analysis.•Social behavior complexity involves regulatory network of multiple neuropeptides.• …

Barcode-based tracking of individuals is revolutionizing animal behavior studies, but further
progress hinges on whether in addition to determining an individual's location, specific …

Across evolutionary lineages, insects vary in social complexity, from those that exhibit
extended parental care to those with elaborate divisions of labor. Here, we synthesize the …

Research on honey bees, one of the most famous social insects, has been largely limited to
studies on Central European populations of the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera. Most …