Apis mellifera
- Honey bees flexibly use two navigational memories when updating dance distance information
Summary: Individual honey bees flexibly use recently acquired navigation experience and previously stored navigation information to generate waggle dance duration for a novel feeder distance.
- A new, practicable and economical cage design for experimental studies on small honey bee colonies
Summary: A new, practicable, low-cost cage system for effectively housing small bee colonies to enable investigation of physical conditions, biological factors and environmental contaminants on honey bee responses.
- High experience levels delay recruitment but promote simultaneous time-memories in honey bee foragers
Summary: High experience levels at one food source delay recruitment to another food source at the same time of day but, nevertheless, promote simultaneous time-memories in honey bee foragers.
- Reanalysis of an oft-cited paper on honeybee magnetoreception reveals random behavior
Summary: Re-creation of the results of a well-cited study on honeybee magnetoreception using a random number generator demonstrates that the conclusions of the original paper were due to incorrect data analyses.
- Visual discrimination transfer and modulation by biogenic amines in honeybees
Summary: Honeybees can transfer visual information from a classical to an operant context and appetitive visual learning in honeybees is modulated by octopamine and dopamine.
- Impaired associative learning after chronic exposure to pesticides in young adult honey bees
Highlighted Article: Imidacloprid and glyphosate affect gustatory responsiveness and learning in young honey bees, which show differential sensitivity according to their age, making them successful models for studying pesticide effect on physiology and behaviour.
- Pheromones modulate responsiveness to a noxious stimulus in honey bees
Highlighted Article: Alarm and aggregation pheromones modulate the subjective evaluation of aversive stimuli in an insect, thus contributing to behavioral plasticity beyond their stereotyped role as chemical messengers.
- Nurse honeybee workers tend capped brood, which does not require feeding, around the clock
Summary: Honeybee workers tend larvae around the clock; capped brood that is not fed, but not brood pheromones, attracts similar around-the-clock tending by individually isolated ‘nurse’ bees.