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Courses
- IMBIntroduction to Modeling in Biology
- HSWAWISAGFTUIHTMSWFYHow Science Works And What It Says: A Guide For The Uninitiated In How To Make Science Work For You
- REEResearch in Ecology and Evolution
- MISMethods in Insect Science
- SECSociobiology and the Evolution of Cooperation
Grants
- Managing Emergent Behavior of Interacting Autonomous Systems
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$284.1K
- Studying Insect Collective Behavior as a Model for Distributed Computing (WAESO)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$460.5
- Collaborative Research: ABI Development: A User-Friendly Tool for Highly Accurate Video Tracking
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$206.8K
- Managing Emergent Behavior of Interacting Autonomous Systems
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$48.0K
- BCSP: The Emergence of Inactivity: Adaptive Task Allocation in Complex Distributed Systems, or Why Are There So Many Lazy Ants?
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$695.0K
- Collaborative Proposal: ABI Innovation: Rapid, Interactive, Visual Mining of Biological Motion
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$276.1K
- Collaborative Proposal: Eager: Towards Real-Time, High Through Put Insect Behavior Analysis
Principal Investigator (PI)
2010
$75.2K
- Adaptive Distribution of Morphological Specialists in Social Insect: New Insights Into the Evolution of Division of labor
Principal Investigator (PI)
2009
$450.0K
- Flowers as Complex Signals: The Role of Signal Uncertainty
Co-Investigator (COI)
2009
$419.8K
News
- The ants go marching … methodically
2023
- Lazy Ants Make Themselves Useful in Unexpected Ways
2017
- Ants May Have Reason to Be Anti-Work
2015
- Science Lecture Series to Explore Life in the Universe
2015
- Under the Microscope: UA Student Takes Tiny Ants to the Big Screen
2013
- Division of Labor: Key to Evolution of Multicellular Life?
2012
- Ants Give New Evidence for Interaction Networks
2011
- College of Science Spring Lectures Focus on "Mind and Brain"
2010
- Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday to be Commemorated on Campus
2009
- Can an Ant Be Employee-of-the-Month?
2008
- PRISE Project Helps Navajo, Hopi Teachers With Science Training
2008
Publications (115)
- Social pseudoscorpion nest architecture provides direct benefits to group members and rivals the efficiency of honey bees
2022
- Brood as booty: the effect of colony size and resource value in social insect contests
2022
- How Can We Fully Realize the Potential of Mathematical and Biological Models to Reintegrate Biology?
2021
- Foraging behavior and extended phenotype independently affect foraging success in spiders
2020
- Size variation does not act as insurance in bumble bees; instead, workers add weight in an unpredictable environment
2020
- Ants in isolation: obstacles to testing worker responses to task stimuli outside of the colony context
2019
- Metabolic rate predicts the lifespan of workers in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens
2019
- Signal categorization by foraging animals depends on ecological diversity.
2019
- Juvenile social experience generates differences in behavioral variation but not averages.
2019
- Dynamic task allocation: how and why do social insect workers take on new tasks?
2019
- Guard bees are more likely to act as undertakers: variation in corpse removal in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens
2019
- Author response: Signal categorization by foraging animals depends on ecological diversity
2019
- Bringing down the house: male widow spiders reduce the webs of aggressive females more
2019
- Peripheral sensory organs vary among ant workers but variation does not predict division of labor.
2018
- Lower temperatures decrease worker size variation but do not affect fine-grained thermoregulation in bumble bees
2018
- Metabolic rate is consistent with age and predicts the lifespan of the bumble bee Bombus impatiens
2018
- Learning about larceny: experience can bias bumble bees to rob nectar
2018
- Ant-Inspired Dynamic Task Allocation via Gossiping
2017
- Costs of task allocation with local feedback: Effects of colony size and extra workers in social insects and other multi-agent systems.
2017
- Task switching is associated with temporal delays in Temnothorax rugatulus ants.
2017
- Life‐history strategy and behavioral type: risk‐tolerance reflects growth rate and energy allocation in ant colonies
2017
- Who Are the Lazy Ants? The Function of Inactivity in Social Insects and a Possible Role of Constraint: Inactive Ants Are Corpulent and May Be Young and/or Selfish.
2017
- Context‐dependent defences in turtle ants: Resource defensibility and threat level induce dynamic shifts in soldier deployment
2017
- Sampling and tracking a changing environment: persistence and reward in the foraging decisions of bumblebees.
2017
- Who needs lazy workers? Inactive workers act as a reserve labor force replacing active workers, but inactive workers are not replaced when they are removed.
2017
- Temnothorax rugatulus ant colonies consistently vary in nest structure across time and context.
2017
- Behavioral caste is associated with distinct gene expression profiles in workers in Temnothorax rugatulus
2017
- Foraging bumble bees weigh the reliability of personal and social information
2016
- 'Lazy' in nature: ant colony time budgets show high 'inactivity' in the field as well as in the lab
2015
- Latitudinal variation in behaviors linked to risk-tolerance is driven by nest-site competition and spatial distribution in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus
2015
- When doing nothing is something. How task allocation strategies compromise between flexibility, efficiency, and inactive agents
2015
- Quitting time: When do honey bee foragers decide to stop foraging on natural resources?
2015
- Trading off short-term costs for long-term gains: how do bumblebees decide to learn morphologically complex flowers?
2015
- Multiple Insect Tracking with Occlusion Sub-tunnels
2015
- Workers 'specialized' on inactivity: behavioral consistency of inactive workers and their role in task allocation
2015
- Efficient Training of Multiple Ant Tracking
2015
- Ant tracking with occlusion tunnels
2014
- Bumblebee response thresholds and body size: does worker diversity increase colony performance?
2014
- Data association based ant tracking with interactive error correction
2014
- Dance Communication Affects Consistency, but Not Breadth, of Resource Use in Pollen-Foraging Honey Bees
2014
- Be meek or be bold? A colony-level behavioural syndrome in ants
2014
- Task Allocation in Ant Colonies
2014
- Morphological differences between extranidal and intranidal workers in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus, but no effect of body size on foraging distance
2014
- Bigger is better: Honeybee colonies as distributed information-gathering systems
2013
- Floral nectar guide patterns discourage nectar robbing by bumble bees
2013
- Soldier-based defences dynamically track resource availability and quality in ants
2013
- Colony size does not predict foraging distance in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus: A puzzle for standard scaling models
2013
- Larger laboratory colonies consume proportionally less energy and have lower per capita brood production in Temnothorax ants
2013
- Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels
2013
- Tracking multiple ants in a colony
2013
- Multimodal signals enhance decision making in foraging bumble-bees
2012
- Erratum to How habitat affects the benefits of communication in collectively foraging honey bees (Behav Ecol Sociobiol, 10.1007/s00265-011-1306-z)
2012
- Temporal dynamics and network analysis
2012
- Finding optimal collective strategies using individual-based simulations: colony organization in social insects
2012
- Ants use pheromone markings in emigrations to move closer to food-rich areas
2012
- The Trail Less Traveled: Individual Decision-Making and Its Effect on Group Behavior
2012
- Floral signal complexity as a possible adaptation to environmental variability: A test using nectar-foraging bumblebees, Bombus impatiens
2012
- Individual bumblebees vary in response to disturbance: A test of the defensive reserve hypothesis
2012
- How is activity distributed among and within tasks in Temnothorax ants?
2012
- How habitat affects the benefits of communication in collectively foraging honey bees
2012
- Task-switching costs promote the evolution of division of labor and shifts in individuality
2012
- Group size and its effects on collective organization
2012
- Predation risk makes bees reject rewarding flowers and reduce foraging activity
2011
- Percent lipid is associated with body size but not task in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens
2011
- Forget-me-not: Complex floral displays, inter-signal interactions, and pollinator cognition
2011
- Competition and cooperation: Bumblebee spatial organization and division of labor may affect worker reproduction late in life
2011
- Multiple ant tracking with global foreground maximization and variable target proposal distribution
2011
- Time-ordered networks reveal limitations to information flow in ant colonies
2011
- Flowers help bees cope with uncertainty: signal detection and the function of floral complexity
2011
- The function of polydomy: the ant Crematogaster torosa preferentially forms new nests near food sources and fortifies outstations
2011
- Food Exploitation by Social Insects: Ecological, Behavioral, and Theoretical Approaches. Contemporary Topics in Entomology Series. Edited by Stefan Jarau and Michael Hrncir. CRC Press. Boca Raton (Florida): Taylor Francis. $119.95. xii + 348 p. + 4 pl.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-1-4200-7560-1. 2009.
2011
- Ecology: A prerequisite for malaria elimination and eradication
2010
- Ontogeny of worker body size distribution in bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) colonies
2010
- Ambient air temperature does not predict whether small or large workers forage in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens)
2010
- Small worker bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) are hardier against starvation than their larger sisters
2010
- Location, location, location: larvae position inside the nest is correlated with adult body size in worker bumble-bees (Bombus impatiens)
2009
- On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies
2009
- Spatial organization and division of labour in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens
2009
- Larger colonies do not have more specialized workers in the ant Temnothorax albipennis
2009
- Weak specialization of workers inside a bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) nest
2009
- A meta-analysis of ant social parasitism: Host characteristics of different parasitism types and a test of Emery's rule
2008
- Ants under crowded conditions consume more energy
2008
- Multimodal signals enhance decision-making in foraging bumble-bees
2008
- Why do not all workers work? Colony size and workload during emigrations in the ant Temnothorax albipennis
2008
- Individual and collective cognition in ants and other insects (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
2008
- Specialization does not predict individual efficiency in an ant
2008
- Ventilation response thresholds do not change with age or self-reinforcement in workers of the bumble bee Bombus impatiens
2008
- Reconnaissance and latent learning in ants
2007
- Moving targets: collective decisions and flexible choices in house-hunting ants
2007
- Avoidance of conspecific colonies during nest choice by ants
2007
- Preliminary report on the use of volatile compounds by foraging honey bees in the hive (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apis)
2007
- Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior
2006
- Weighting waiting in collective decision-making
2006
- Decision making by small and large house-hunting ant colonies: one size fits all
2006
- Not everything that counts can be counted: Ants use multiple metrics for a single nest trait
2006
- Colony size affects collective decision-making in the ant Temnothorax albipennis
2006
- Paying for information: Partial loads in central place foragers
2006
- Benefits of recruitment in honey bees: Effects of ecology and colony size in an individual-based model
2006
- Noise, cost and speed-accuracy trade-offs: Decision-making in a decentralized system
2006
- Chemical compounds of the foraging recruitment pheromone in bumblebees
2005
- The hidden cost of information in collective foraging
2005
- Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) store both food and information in honeypots
2005
- Tomb evaders: House-hunting hygiene in ants
2005
- Why do honey bees dance?
2004
- Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp.)
2004
- Ants move to improve: Colonies of Leptothorax albipennis emigrate whenever they find a superior nest site
2004
- How might individual honeybees measure massive volumes?
2003
- Bumble bees alert to food with pheromone from tergal gland
2003
- Bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy
2003
- Speed versus accuracy in collective decision making
2003
- A scientific note on food alert in Bombus transversalis
2003
- Simulating the evolution of ant behaviour in evaluating nest sites
2003
- Significance of honeybee recruitment strategies depending on foraging distance (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apis mellifera)
2002
- Food alert in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris): Possible mechanisms and evolutionary implications
2001
- Evolutionary origins of bee dances
1999