In recent years, the concept of self-organization has been used to understand collective
behaviour of animals. The central tenet of self-organization is that simple repeated …

Animal personalities or behavioural syndromes are consistent and/or correlated behaviours
across two or more situations within a population. Social insect biologists have measured …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

Bumblebees are familiar and charismatic insects, occurring throughout much of the world.
They are increasingly being used as a model organism for studying a wide range of …

The roots of swarm intelligence are deeply embedded in the biological study of self-
organized behaviors in social insects. From the routing of traffic in telecommunication …

Most social insect species are able to regulate the temperature within their nests. In this
review, we examine the variety of mechanisms that social insect species have evolved to …

Bumblebees are ubiquitous, cold‐adapted eusocial bees found worldwide from subarctic to
tropical regions of the world. They are key pollinators in most temperate and boreal …

Individuals within social groups often show consistent differences in behaviour across time
and context. Such interindividual differences and the evolutionary challenge they present …

Although most insect colonies are headed by a singly mated queen, some ant, wasp and
bee taxa have evolved high levels of multiple mating or 'polyandry'. We argue here that a …

Thermal stress is a major driver of population declines and extinctions. Shifts in thermal
regimes create new environmental conditions, leading to trait adaptation, population …