Automated monitoring reveals extreme interindividual variation and plasticity in honeybee foraging activity levels

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Tenczar, Paul (author), Lutz, Claudia C. (author), Rao, Vikyath D. (author), Goldenfeld, Nigel (author), and Robinson, Gene E. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2014
    URL:
    https://www.elsevier.com/locate/anbehav/
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: D11295
    Journal Title:
    Animal Behaviour
    Journal Title Details:
    95 :41-48
    Subject Term:
    social communication, social factors, insects, bees, animal communication, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), social class, foraging, and environmental factors
    Notes:
    "These results demonstrate that elitism in insect societies can arise as the extreme of a stable spectrum of individual behavioural activity that allows the colony to respond easily to unexpected needs rather than relying on responses of a rigidly defined subgroup of workers."

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