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Thomas Dyer Seeley

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Dyer Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. He is the author of several books on honeybee behavior, including Honeybee Democracy and The Wisdom of the Hive He was the recipient of the Humboldt Prize in Biology in 2001. He primarily studies swarm intelligence by investigating how bees collectively make decisions.

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Thomas Dyer Seeley's Published Works

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The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies (1995) (1171)
The Wisdom of the Hive (1995) (695)
FORAGING STRATEGY OF HONEYBEE COLONIES IN A TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST (1982) (557)
Adaptive significance of the age polyethism schedule in honeybee colonies (1982) (543)
Collective decision-making in honey bees: how colonies choose among nectar sources (1991) (485)
Genetic Diversity in Honey Bee Colonies Enhances Productivity and Fitness (2007) (433)
Ecology of Social Life--In Honeybees@@@Honeybee Ecology: A Study of Adaptation in Social life (1986) (362)
The honey bee colony as a superorganism. (1989) (348)
Parasites, Pathogens, and Polyandry in Social Hymenoptera (1988) (326)
Group decision making in swarms of honey bees (1999) (316)
Stop Signals Provide Cross Inhibition in Collective Decision-Making by Honeybee Swarms (2012) (303)
Queen promiscuity lowers disease within honeybee colonies (2007) (259)
The nest of the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) (1976) (221)
Social foraging in honey bees: how nectar foragers assess their colony's nutritional status (1989) (220)
Survival of honeybees in cold climates: the critical timing of colony growth and reproduction (1985) (213)
Colony Defense Strategies of the Honeybees in Thailand (1982) (194)
Group decision making in honey bee swarms (2006) (193)
Dancing bees tune both duration and rate of waggle-run production in relation to nectar-source profitability (2000) (192)
Social foraging by honeybees: how colonies allocate foragers among patches of flowers (1986) (182)
Honey bee foragers as sensory units of their colonies (2004) (181)
Quorum sensing during nest-site selection by honeybee swarms (2004) (175)
Behavioral Ecology of a Social Insect@@@Honeybee Ecology: A Study of Adaptation in Social Life. (1986) (174)
Lower disease infections in honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies headed by polyandrous vs monandrous queens (2006) (172)
Fever in honeybee colonies (2000) (169)
The use of waggle dance information by honey bees throughout their foraging careers (2005) (169)
Modeling and analysis of nest-site selection by honeybee swarms: the speed and accuracy trade-off (2005) (160)
Honey Bee Colonies are Group‐Level Adaptive Units (1997) (155)
Choosing a home: how the scouts in a honey bee swarm perceive the completion of their group decision making (2003) (152)
Collective personalities in honeybee colonies are linked to colony fitness (2011) (151)
The tremble dance of the honey bee: message and meanings (1992) (144)
Group decision making in nest-site selection by honey bees (2004) (144)
Swarm cognition in honey bees (2007) (139)
Honey bees of the Arnot Forest: a population of feral colonies persisting with Varroa destructor in the northeastern United States (2011) (136)
Division of labor between scouts and recruits in honeybee foraging (1983) (131)
Consensus building during nest-site selection in honey bee swarms: the expiration of dissent (2003) (125)
Atmospheric carbon dioxide regulation in honey-bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. (1974) (124)
Molecular Determinants of Scouting Behavior in Honey Bees (2012) (120)
Tactics of dance choice in honey bees: do foragers compare dances? (1992) (120)
The control of water collection in honey bee colonies (1997) (116)
Deciding on a new home: how do honeybees agree? (2002) (113)
When Is Self-Organization Used in Biological Systems? (2002) (111)
How does an informed minority of scouts guide a honeybee swarm as it flies to its new home? (2006) (110)
Levels of selection in a social insect: a review of conflict and cooperation during honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen replacement (2004) (106)
Assessing the benefits of cooperation in honeybee foraging: search costs, forage quality, and competitive ability (1988) (103)
Worker piping in honey bee swarms and its role in preparing for liftoff (2001) (103)
Crowding honeybee colonies in apiaries can increase their vulnerability to the deadly ectoparasite Varroa destructor (2015) (103)
Why search time to find a food-storer bee accurately indicates the relative rates of nectar collecting and nectar processing in honey bee colonies (1994) (102)
Nest site selection by the honey bee,Apis mellifera (1978) (97)
Dance dialects and foraging range in three Asian honey bee species (1991) (94)
Kin selection and eusociality (2011) (94)
Imprecision in waggle dances of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) for nearby food sources: error or adaptation? (1999) (92)
Life history strategy of the honey bee, Apis mellifera (2004) (91)
Independence and interdependence in collective decision making: an agent-based model of nest-site choice by honeybee swarms (2009) (91)
The mechanism of flight guidance in honeybee swarms: subtle guides or streaker bees? (2008) (81)
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FLIGHT OF HONEY BEE SWARMS (1979) (78)
Interspecific Comparisons of Endothermy in Honey-Bees (APIS): Deviations from the Expected Size-Related Patterns (1987) (77)
Age Polyethism for Hive Duties in Honey Bees — Illusion or Reality? (2010) (73)
How Honeybees Find a Home (1982) (73)
Museum samples reveal rapid evolution by wild honey bees exposed to a novel parasite (2015) (71)
Measurement of nest cavity volume by the honey bee (Apis mellifera) (1977) (70)
Nesting Behavior and the Evolution of Worker Tempo in Four Honey Bee Species (1991) (70)
Colony migration in the tropical honey beeApis dorsata F. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (1994) (69)
Thoughts on information and integration in honey bee colonies (1998) (68)
The honey bee’s tremble dance stimulates additional bees to function as nectar receivers (1996) (68)
Genetic diversity within honeybee colonies increases signal production by waggle-dancing foragers (2008) (68)
Caste-dependent sleep of worker honey bees (2008) (65)
Sleep deprivation impairs precision of waggle dance signaling in honey bees (2010) (62)
Mite bombs or robber lures? The roles of drifting and robbing in Varroa destructor transmission from collapsing honey bee colonies to their neighbors (2019) (60)
How Honey Bee Colonies Survive in the Wild: Testing the Importance of Small Nests and Frequent Swarming (2016) (57)
Parasites, Pathogens, and Polyandry in Honey Bees (1998) (56)
The Pattern and Effectiveness of Forager Allocation Among Flower Patches by Honey Bee Colonies (1993) (54)
The Grooming Invitation Dance of the Honey Bee (2004) (52)
Thorough warm-up before take-off in honey bee swarms (2003) (51)
The Seasonal Cycle of Swarming in Honeybees (1977) (51)
A survivor population of wild colonies of European honeybees in the northeastern United States: investigating its genetic structure (2015) (49)
Do honeybees have two discrete dances to advertise food sources? (2008) (47)
Honey bees use social information in waggle dances more fully when foraging errors are more costly (2012) (47)
The Brief Piping Signal of the Honey Bee: Begging Call or Stop Signal? (2005) (47)
Coordinating a group departure: who produces the piping signals on honeybee swarms? (2007) (46)
Kin discrimination and aggression in honey bee colonies with laying workers (1986) (44)
Varroa destructor Mites Can Nimbly Climb from Flowers onto Foraging Honey Bees (2016) (41)
Mating Frequencies of Honey Bee Queens (Apis mellifera L.) in a Population of Feral Colonies in the Northeastern United States (2015) (41)
Sensory coding of nest-site value in honeybee swarms (2008) (41)
Colony fissioning in honey bees: size and significance of the swarm fraction (2012) (40)
Dispersal Behavior of Honey Bee Swarms (1977) (39)
The functional organization of resin work in honeybee colonies (2006) (38)
Reproductive decisions by honey bee colonies: tuning investment in male production in relation to success in energy acquisition (2003) (37)
The shaking signal of the honey bee informs workers to prepare for greater activity (2010) (37)
The buzz-run: how honeybees signal ‘Time to go!’ (2008) (35)
Beeping and piping: characterization of two mechano-acoustic signals used by honey bees in swarming (2012) (34)
The signals initiating the mass exodus of a honeybee swarm from its nest (2008) (33)
Multiple unloadings by nectar foragers in honey bees: a matter of information improvement or crop fullness? (2003) (32)
Nest site selection by the honey bee. (1978) (32)
The behavioral regulation of thirst, water collection and water storage in honey bee colonies (2016) (31)
The ecology of temperate and tropical honeybee societies. (1983) (30)
The effect of drone comb on a honey bee colony's production of honey* (2002) (30)
Life-history traits of wild honey bee colonies living in forests around Ithaca, NY, USA (2017) (29)
Consistent personality differences in house-hunting behavior but not decision speed in swarms of honey bees (Apis mellifera) (2011) (29)
A critical number of workers in a honeybee colony triggers investment in reproduction (2014) (29)
Work or sleep? Honeybee foragers opportunistically nap during the day when forage is not available (2011) (27)
On the Evolution of the Dance Language (1989) (25)
Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms When 10,000 bees go house hunting, how do they cooperatively choose their new nesting site? (2006) (25)
Promiscuous honeybee queens generate colonies with a critical minority of waggle-dancing foragers (2010) (25)
A scientific note on the dynamics of labor devoted to nectar foraging in a honey bee colony: number of foragers versus individual foraging activity (2000) (24)
Social Foraging by Honeybees: How a Colony Tracks Rich Sources of Nectar (1987) (24)
Does a polyandrous honeybee queen improve through patriline diversity the activity of her colony’s scouting foragers? (2011) (23)
Decision making in superorganisms: How collective wisdom arises from the poorly informed masses. (2001) (22)
Honeybees do not reject dances for ‘implausible’ locations: reconsidering the evidence for cognitive maps in insects (2008) (22)
Honey bee sociometry: tracking honey bee colonies and their nest contents from colony founding until death (2016) (22)
Hypotheses on the adaptiveness or non-adaptiveness of the directional imprecision in the Honey Bee's Waggle Dance (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apis mellifera) (2007) (22)
Worker piping associated with foraging in undisturbed queenright colonies of honey bees (1996) (22)
Effects of emotions and social processes on bounded rationality (2001) (21)
A COLONY OF MIND (1987) (20)
No intracolonial nepotism during colony fissioning in honey bees (2009) (20)
Self-assemblage formation in a social insect: the protective curtain of a honey bee swarm (2004) (19)
Adaptive tuning of an extended phenotype: honeybees seasonally shift their honey storage to optimize male production (2015) (18)
Honey bees choosing a home prefer previously occupied cavities (1985) (17)
Comparative brain transcriptomic analyses of scouting across distinct behavioural and ecological contexts in honeybees (2014) (17)
Extreme polyandry improves a honey bee colony’s ability to track dynamic foraging opportunities via greater activity of inspecting bees (2014) (17)
Bee-lining as a research technique in ecological studies of honey bees. (1989) (17)
Nest‐Site Defense by Competing Honey Bee Swarms During House‐Hunting (2010) (16)
Origin of yellow rain. (1983) (16)
How a honey bee colony mustered additional labor for the task of pollen foraging (2002) (15)
Small-cell comb does not control Varroa mites in colonies of honeybees of European origin (2011) (13)
The Lives of Bees (2019) (13)
The effectiveness of information collection about food sources by honey bee colonies (1987) (12)
Local behavioral rules sustain the cell allocation pattern in the combs of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera). (2012) (12)
Recruitment-dance signals draw larger audiences when honey bee colonies have multiple patrilines (2010) (12)
How honeybee queen attendants become ordinary workers (1981) (12)
An oligarchy of nest-site scouts triggers a honeybee swarm’s departure from the hive (2010) (8)
Does plastic comb foundation hinder waggle dance communication (2005) (7)
Progress in Understanding How the Waggle Dance Improves the Foraging Efficiency of Honey Bee Colonies (2012) (7)
Do honeybees use the directional information in round dances to find nearby food sources? (2012) (6)
No facultative worker policing in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) (2013) (6)
Genetic diversity of wild and managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Southwestern Pennsylvania, and prevalence of the microsporidian gut pathogens Nosema ceranae and N. apis (2020) (5)
Division of Labour among Worker Honeybees (2010) (5)
The declining use of animal and behaviour images in animal behaviour journals (2015) (5)
Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting (2016) (4)
An equilibrium theory of queen production in honeybee colonies preparing to swarm (1983) (4)
Optimal colony fissioning in social insects: testing an inclusive fitness model with honey bees (2013) (4)
The flight of the speedy bee (1992) (3)
Obituary: Martin Lindauer (1918–2008) (2008) (3)
Beauty and the bees (2003) (2)
A Nest of a Social Wasp, Vespa Affinis, in Thailand (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) (1980) (2)
The History of Honey Bees in North America (2019) (2)
The Five Habits of Highly Effective Honeybees (and What We Can Learn from Them): From "Honeybee Democracy" (2010) (2)
Bee warned (1991) (2)
Can stepping stones from stairways (1989) (2)
2. A Feeling and a Fondness for the Bees (2002) (2)
Bait Hives for Honey Bees (1989) (2)
Life-history traits of wild honey bee colonies living in forests around Ithaca, NY, USA (2017) (1)
Colony fissioning in honey bees: size and significance of the swarm fraction (2012) (1)
2. Honeybees in Nature (1985) (1)
Causing a buzz (1998) (1)
Foreword to the Paperback Edition (1993) (1)
by Honeybee Swarms Stop Signals Provide Cross Inhibition in Collective Decision-Making (2012) (0)
Signatures of adaptive decreased virulence of deformed wing virus in an isolated population of wild honey bees (Apis mellifera) (2022) (0)
10. Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Honeybees (1985) (0)
Electron-bombarded CCD sensors for far-ultraviolet measurements of the upper atmosphere (1991) (0)
7. Food Collection (1985) (0)
A survivor population of wild colonies of European honeybees in the northeastern United States: investigating its genetic structure (2015) (0)
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR : BORN TO DANCE (1999) (0)
3. Bee-Hunting Season (2016) (0)
8. On Not “Taking Up” the Bee Tree (2016) (0)
Wild Honey Bees: An Intimate Portrait. With photography by Ingo Arndt and text by Jürgen Tautz. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $29.95. 192 p.; ill.; no index. ISBN: 978-0-691-23508-0. [Originally published in 2021.] 2022. (2022) (0)
Following the Wild Bees (2019) (0)
4. The Annual Cycle of Colonies (1985) (0)
Nonhuman Democratic Practice (2014) (0)
4. SCOUT BEES’ DEBATE (2011) (0)
No facultative worker policing in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) (2013) (0)
7. Finding the Bee Tree (2016) (0)
A critical number of workers in a honeybee colony triggers investment in reproduction (2014) (0)
A Feeling and a Fondness for the Bees (2019) (0)
9. Colony Defense (1985) (0)
Diversity, antimicrobial production, and seasonal variation of honey bee microbiota isolated from the honey stomachs of the domestic honey bee, Apis mellifera (2023) (0)
Honey Bee Democracy by Tom Seeley (2011) (0)
5. Timing Bees to Estimate Distance to Home (2016) (0)
6. Nest Building (1985) (0)
Nonhuman Democratic Practice: Democracy among the Bees (2014) (0)
4. Establishing a Beeline (2016) (0)
Development of Large Format Electron-Bombarded CCD Detectors for Ultraviolet Imaging and Spectrography (1989) (0)
Role of queen promiscuity in reproductive swarming by honey bees (2014) (0)
Honey bee sociometry: tracking honey bee colonies and their nest contents from colony founding until death (2016) (0)
A tale of two dances. (2000) (0)
Beeping and piping: characterization of two mechano-acoustic signals used by honey bees in swarming (2012) (0)
Extreme polyandry improves a honey bee colony’s ability to track dynamic foraging opportunities via greater activity of inspecting bees (2013) (0)
Looking to Nature to Solve the Health Crisis of Honey Bees (2021) (0)
Museum specimens reveal resilience to disease in feral bees (2014) (0)
6. Making Moves Down the Beeline (2016) (0)
Remembrances of a Honey Bee Biologist. (2021) (0)
8. Temperature Control (1985) (0)
3. The Honeybee Societies (1985) (0)
Orientation And Foraging In Honeybees (2018) (0)
Optimal colony fissioning in social insects: testing an inclusive fitness model with honey bees (2013) (0)
cooperatively choose their new nesting site (2016) (0)
Born to Dance: Choreography in a beehive. (1999) (0)
2. The Bee Box and Other Tools (2016) (0)
6. BUILDING A CONSENSUS (2011) (0)
Colony Defense Strategies of Honeybees in Thailand (2019) (0)
Books received and noted (1969) (0)
Crowding honeybee colonies in apiaries can increase their vulnerability to the deadly ectoparasite Varroa destructor (2015) (0)

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