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The relationship between sugar flow and foraging and recruiting behaviour of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.)
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It is proposed as a hypothesis that the time spent by a bee at a food source or at the hive in each foraging cycle results from the balance between two tendencies: to stay and to go.About:
This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 100 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foraging.read more
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Collective decision-making in honey bees: how colonies choose among nectar sources
TL;DR: It is suggested that honey bee colonies possess decentralized decision-making because it combines effectiveness with simplicity of communication and computation within a colony.
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Honeybees maximize efficiency by not filling their crop
TL;DR: It is argued that maximization of energetic efficiency may be an adaptation to a limited flight-cost budget because a worker's condition seems to deteriorate as a function of the amount of flight performed.
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Colony state and regulation of pollen foraging in the honey bee, Apis mellifera L.
TL;DR: Under both high and low pollen storage treatments, colonies returned pollen storage levels to pre-experimental levels within 16 days, suggesting that honey bees regulate pollenstorage levels around a homeostatic set point.
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Social foraging by honeybees: how colonies allocate foragers among patches of flowers
TL;DR: Colonies can adjust their patch selectivity so that they focus on rich sources when forage is abundant, but spread their workers among a wider range of sources whenForage is scarce, and can swiftly redistribute its forager force following changes in the spatial distribution of rich food sources.
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Über die Einwirkung von Duft- und Geschmacksstoffen sowie anderer Faktoren auf die Tänze der Bienen
TL;DR: The Moglichkeit zu dieser Lenkung des Bienenfluges liegt darin begrundet, das sich die Sammelbienen durch einen Rund- oder Schwanzeltanz uber aufgefundene Trachtquellen verstandigen konnen.
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Über den Blutzucker der Bienen
TL;DR: The Arbeiterin von Apis mellifica hat einen Blutzuckergehalt von durchschnittlich 2%, die Streuung ist sehr gros as discussed by the authors.