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Making Sense of Diversity of Foragers
If foraging is considered only as a practice of engaging with wild products, then all foragers might look the same. However, if diverse knowledge...
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Practices and Perceptions of Foragers of Wild Resources in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria
During the past decades, a growing body of literature has recognized the benefits (including ecological, social, economic, cultural, and...
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Turnover of strain-level diversity modulates functional traits in the honeybee gut microbiome between nurses and foragers
BackgroundStrain-level diversity is widespread among bacterial species and can expand the functional potential of natural microbial communities....
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Stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) foragers prioritise resin and reduce pollen foraging after hive splitting
Stingless bees are increasingly in demand as pollinators in agricultural crops within the tropics and subtropics. Hive splitting, where one strong...
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Deconstructing and contextualizing foraging behavior in bumble bees and other central place foragers
Bumble bee foragers provide essential pollination services in both natural and agricultural ecosystems. However, foraging is not monolithic; rather,...
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Distinct gut microbiota profiles of Asian honey bee (Apis cerana) foragers
Bee gut microbial communities have been studied extensively and linked to honey bee biology in terms of stages of bee development and behavior....
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Context-dependent use of olfactory cues by foragers of Vespula germanica social wasps
Food search is guided by cues from different sensory modalities, such as olfactory and visual. In social wasps, olfaction plays a key role in...
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Chronic in-hive exposure to a field-relevant concentration of Closer™ SC (24% sulfoxaflor) insecticide altered immunological and physiological markers of honey bee foragers (
Apis mellifera )Sulfoxaflor (SULF), a well-known alternative for the banned neonicotinoids, is not environmentally persistent, yet numerous studies using...
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Ideal free flows of optimal foragers: Vertical migrations in the ocean
We consider the collective motion of animals in time-varying environments, using as a case the diel vertical migration of marine copepods. The...
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A Genetically Modified Anti-Plasmodium Bacterium Is Harmless to the Foragers of the Stingless Bee Partamona helleri
Paratransgenesis consists of genetically engineering an insect symbiont to control vector-borne diseases. Biosafety assessments are a prerequisite...
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Honeybee colonies provide foragers with costly fuel to promote pollen collection
Honeybee pollen foragers departing the hive carry concentrated nectar to use as fuel for flight and glue for forming pollen loads. Since nectar is...
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Medium-distance soil foragers dominate the Pinus hartwegii ectomycorrhizal community at the 3900 m Neotropical treeline
Pinus hartwegii is the only ectomycorrhizal host distributing at 4000 m asl in the Neotropics forming monospecific sky-island forests on the...
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Ant foragers might present variation and universal property in their movements
Investigating the locomotion mechanisms of animals improves our understanding of both their inherent movements and responses to external stimuli....
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Subterranean termite colony elimination can be achieved even when only a small proportion of foragers feed upon a CSI bait
Termite bait products that contain chitin synthesis inhibitors (CSIs) protect structures from subterranean termites via colony elimination. A...
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A potential risk and management of feces in the queenless ant
Many ant species inhabit closed environments with limited spaces underground, encompassing a potential risk of pathogen reservoir and transmission...
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Beyond busy workers: exploring the sensitivity of inactive ants to environmental cues
Ant colonies are often considered to be highly efficient societies skilled at cooperating and sharing workload among workers. Yet, several studies...
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The effect of forager loss on honeybee workers temporal polyethism and social network structure
The western honeybee Apis mellifera is perhaps the best-known example of an advanced eusocial species displaying temporal polyethism, a process in...
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Molecular mechanisms of task allocation in workers of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta
The red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta is an invasive pest in the USA, eastern Asia, and Australia that causes billions worth of damage where...
