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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

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