ArticleNature communications2015
Appetitive floral odours prevent aggression in honeybees.
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- The Pheromone Landscape ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Consistency and individuality of honeybee stinging behaviour across time and social contexts.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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- Geosmin suppresses defensive behaviour and elicits unusual neural responses in honey bees.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Extracting individual characteristics from population data reveals a negative social effect during honeybee defence.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Antenna movements as a function of odorants' biological value in honeybees (Apis mellifera L.).Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- The short neuropeptide F regulates appetitive but not aversive responsiveness in a social insect.iScience · 2022Article
- Olfactory coding in the antennal lobe of the bumble bee Bombus terrestris.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Honeybee communication during collective defence is shaped by predation.BMC biology · 2021Article
- Olfactory coding in honeybees.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
- The neuroethology of olfactory sex communication in the honeybee Apis mellifera L.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
- A Review of the Potential Use of Pinene and Linalool as Terpene-Based Medicines for Brain Health: Discovering Novel Therapeutics in the Flavours and Fragrances of Cannabis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Study of anticancer, antimicrobial, immunomodulatory, and silver nanoparticles production by Sidr honey from three different sources.Food science & nutrition · 2020Article
- Aversive Training of Honey Bees in an Automated Y-Maze.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Complementary Specializations of the Left and Right Sides of the Honeybee Brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Seasonality, alarm pheromone and serotonin: insights on the neurobiology of honeybee defence from winter bees.Biology letters · 2018Article
- Cooperative defence operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honey bee brain.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Assessment of Appetitive Behavior in Honey Bee Dance Followers.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
Honeybees defend their colonies aggressively against intruders and release a potent alarm pheromone to recruit nestmates into defensive tasks. The effect of floral odours on this behaviour has never been studied, despite the relevance of these olfactory cues for the biology of bees. Here we use a novel assay to investigate social and olfactory cues that drive defensive behaviour in bees. We show that social interactions are necessary to reveal the recruiting function of the alarm pheromone and that specific floral odours-linalool and 2-phenylethanol-have the surprising capacity to block recruitment by the alarm pheromone. This effect is not due to an olfactory masking of the pheromone by the floral odours, but correlates with their appetitive value. In addition to their potential applications, these findings provide new insights about how honeybees make the decision to engage into defence and how conflicting information affects this process.
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