Margaret Couvillon

Publications

• Honeybee linguistics—a comparative analysis of the waggle dance among species of Apis
• Apple orchards feed honey bees during, but even more so after, bloom
• Honey bee foraging distance depends on month and forage type
• Row crop fields provide mid-summer forage for honey bees
• Honey bee foraging preferences in an orchard and food crop landscape in northern Virginia
• Emerging themes from the ESA symposium entitled “Pollinator Nutrition: Lessons from Bees at Individual to Landscape Levels”
• Dancing to her own beat: honey bee foragers communicate via individually calibrated waggle dances
• Honey bee waggle dance communication: signal meaning and signal noise affect dance follower behaviour
• Row crop fields provide mid‐summer forage for honey bees
• Dismantling Babel: creation of a universal calibration for honey bee waggle dance decoding
• Dance-communicated distances support nectar foraging as a supply-driven system
• Apple orchards feed honey bees during, but even more so after, bloom
• Hymenopteran collective foraging and information transfer about resources 2012
• Honey bee dance decoding and pollen-load analysis show limited foraging on spring-flowering oilseed rape, a potential source of neonicotinoid contamination
• Context affects nestmate recognition errors in honey bees and stingless bees
• Determining the foraging potential of oilseed rape to honey bees using aerial surveys and simulations
• Waggle dance distances as integrative indicators of seasonal foraging challenges
• Unnatural Contexts Cause Honey Bee Guards to Adopt Non-Guarding Behaviours Towards Allospecifics and Conspecifics
• Dismantling Babel: creation of a universal calibration for honey bee waggle dance decoding
• Caffeinated forage tricks honeybees into increasing foraging and recruitment behaviors
• Proceedings of the 2020 American Bee Research Conference
• Busy bees: variation in insect flower-visiting rates across multiple plant species
• Can restored prairies contribute significantly to the diets of Apis mellifera (honey bee) colonies in the upper midwest?
• Dancing bees communicate foraging preferences in row crop production systems
• Communication: Honey Bee Dances
• Dance-communicated distances support nectar foraging as a supply-driven system
• Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Decrease Foraging But Not Recruitment After Neonicotinoid Exposure
• Do honey bee (Apis mellifera) foragers recruit their nestmates to native forbs in reconstructed prairie habitats?
• Environmental consultancy: dancing bee bioindicators to evaluate landscape “health”
• Too much noise on the dance floor: intra-and inter-dance angular error in honey bee waggle dances
• Summertime blues: August foraging leaves honey bees empty-handed
• Hive relocation does not adversely affect honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) foraging
• Automatic Analysis of Bees’ Waggle Dance
• Dancing bees communicate a foraging preference for rural lands in high-level agri-environment schemes
• Outcomes of HIV-positive patients lost to follow-up in African treatment programmes
• Automatic methods for long-term tracking and the detection and decoding of communication dances in honeybees
• Bourgeois behavior and freeloading in the colonial orb web spider Parawixia bistriata (Araneae, Araneidae)
• Bioindicators for a sustainable future: Dancing honey bees communicate habitats' ability to feed pollinators
• If You Grow It, They Will Come: Ornamental Plants Impact the Abundance and Diversity of Pollinators and Other Flower-Visiting Insects in Gardens
• Ballroom biology: recent insights into honey bee waggle dance communications
• Member Symposium: Pollinator Nutrition: Lessons from Bees at Individual to Landscape Levels
• Insect Pollinators in the Human-Modified Landscape II
• Incorporating variability in honey bee waggle dance decoding improves the mapping of communicated resource locations
• Airborne metofluthrin, a pyrethroid repellent, does not impact foraging honey bees
• Social insects: The waxy wonder of symmetry
• Individuality impacts communication success in honey bees
• Agricultural grasslands provide forage for honey bees but only when nearby
• If You Grow It, They Will Come: Ornamental Plants Impact the Abundance and Diversity of Pollinators and Other Flower-Visiting Insects in Gardens
• A volatilized pyrethroid insecticide from a mosquito repelling device does not impact honey bee foraging and recruitment
• What Do Bees Think About?
• Sexual selection in honey bees: colony variation and the importance of size in male mating success
• Ambient air temperature does not predict body size of foragers in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens)
• Effects of hive spacing, entrance orientation, and worker activity on nest relocation by honey bee queens
• Odour transfer in stingless bee marmelada (Frieseomelitta varia) demonstrates that entrance guards use an “undesirable--absent” recognition system
• Recognition errors by honey bee (Apis mellifera) guards demonstrate overlapping cues in conspecific recognition
• Ontogeny of worker body size distribution in bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) colonies
• Small worker bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) are hardier against starvation than their larger sisters
• Improved technique for introducing four-day old virgin queens to mating hives that uses artificial and natural queen cells for introduction
• Comparative study in stingless bees (Meliponini) demonstrates that nest entrance size predicts traffic and defensivity
• Intra-dance variation among waggle runs and the design of efficient protocols for honey bee dance decoding
• Percent lipid is associated with body size but not task in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens
• Alarm pheromones do not mediate rapid shifts in honey bee guard acceptance threshold
• Model of collective decision-making in nestmate recognition fails to account for individual discriminator responses and non-independent discriminator errors
• Preemptive defensive self-sacrifice by ant workers
• Working against gravity: horizontal honeybee waggle runs have greater angular scatter than vertical waggle runs
• Brain composition and olfactory learning in honey bees
• Nest-mate recognition template of guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) is modified by wax comb transfer
• Location, location, location: larvae position inside the nest is correlated with adult body size in worker bumble-bees (Bombus impatiens)
• Onslaught of conspecific intruders triggers rapid shifts in guarding behaviour in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
• En garde: rapid shifts in honeybee, Apis mellifera, guarding behaviour are triggered by onslaught of conspecific intruders
• Ambient air temperature does not predict whether small or large workers forage in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens)
• Africanized honeybees are slower learners than their European counterparts
• Hymenopteran Group Foraging and Information Transfer about Resources
• Ambient Air Temperature Does Not Predict whether Small or Large Workers Forage in Bumble Bees (Bombus impatiens)
• The dance legacy of Karl von Frisch
• Concrete consequences: Construction on prime honey bee habitat doubles foraging distances