ArticleiScience2022
Behavioral variation across the days and lives of honey bees.
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- The evolution of division of labour: preconditions and evolutionary feedback.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Integrating computer vision and molecular neurobiology to bridge the gap between behavior and the brain.Current opinion in insect science · 2024Review
- Long-term tracking of social structure in groups of rats.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Possible interactions between gut microbiome and division of labor in honey bees.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Ant social network structure is highly conserved across species.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- How honeybees respond to heat stress from the individual to colony level.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Ontogeny of collective behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Leveraging big data to uncover the eco-evolutionary factors shaping behavioural development.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
In honey bee colonies, workers generally change tasks with age (from brood care, to nest work, to foraging). While these trends are well established, our understanding of how individuals distribute tasks during a day, and how individuals differ in their lifetime behavioral trajectories, is limited. Here, we use automated tracking to obtain long-term data on 4,100+ bees tracked continuously at 3 Hz, across an entire summer, and use behavioral metrics to compare behavior at different timescales. Considering single days, we describe how bees differ in space use, detection, and movement. Analyzing the behavior exhibited across their entire lives, we find consistent inter-individual differences in the movement characteristics of individuals. Bees also differ in how quickly they transition through behavioral space to ultimately become foragers, with fast-transitioning bees living the shortest lives. Our analysis framework provides a quantitative approach to describe individual behavioral variation within a colony from single days to entire lifetimes.
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