Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the hormonal regulation of plasticity in
development and reproduction in the honeybee. The insight that hormones may be the …

In the field of insect circadian rhythms, the honey bee is best known for its foraging time-
sense, or Zeitgedächtnis, which permits the forager bee to make precise associations …

The age at which worker honey bees begin foraging varies under different colony
conditions. Previous studies have shown that juvenile hormone (JH) mediates this …

FIG. 1 Interactions among task groups in harvester ants""". a, How individual workers switch
tasks when more ants are needed to perform the targeted activity. Arrows show the direction …

Honeybee workers (Apis mellifera) may be classified as either short-lived summer bees or
long-lived winter bees in temperate zones. The protein status appears to be a major …

In summer, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) worker population consists of two temporal castes,
a hive bee group performing a multitude of tasks including nursing inside the nest, and a …

Three experiments were conducted to explore the effects of severe food shortage on the
control of two important and interrelated aspects of temporal division of labor in colonies of …

Previous research showed that the presence of older workers causes a delayed onset of
foraging in younger individuals in honey bee colonies, but a specific worker inhibitory factor …

Behavioral development in the adult worker honey bee (Apis mellifera), from performing
tasks inside the hive to foraging, is associated with an increase in the blood titer of juvenile …

Synthetic queen mandibular gland pheromone (QMP) was applied to honey bee colonies to
test two hypotheses:(i) QMP acts like a primer pheromone in the regulation of age-related …