Animal societies are shaped both by social processes and by the physical environment in
which social interactions take place. While many studies take the observed patterns of inter …

Copying others can greatly improve individual fitness and is fundamental for the
organisation of societies. Yet in some situations it is better to ignore social information and …

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 demand for crop pollination is increasing and honey bees are frequently used, in
particular as wild pollinators are in decline. Temporal and spatial variation of flower …

Understanding animal foraging ecology requires large sample sizes spanning broad
environmental and temporal gradients. For pollinators, this has been hampered by the …

Highlights•The honey bee waggle dance enables recruitment to smaller foraging
areas.•Colonies unable to communicate dance information foraged further from their …

Honey bees (Apis sp.) are the only known bee genus that uses nest-based communication
to provide nest-mates with information about the location of resources, the so-called “dance …

Honeybees use the waggle dance to share information about food-site locations with
nestmates. However, the importance of this behavior in colony foraging success remains …

Honey bees (genus Apis) are important pollinators in Asian tropical agricultural and natural
ecosystems, yet the Asian species remain vastly understudied compared to the European …

Efficient communication is highly important for the evolutionary success of social animals.
Honeybees (genus Apis) are unique in that they communicate the spatial information of …