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List of works by Francis Ratnieks

A drink from the magic well

scientific article published in Nature

A morphologically specialized soldier caste improves colony defense in a neotropical eusocial bee

scientific article

A new eusocial vertebrate?

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

A non-policing honey bee colony (Apis mellifera capensis).

scientific article published on 21 September 2002

Alarm pheromones do not mediate rapid shifts in honey bee guard acceptance threshold.

scientific article published on 11 November 2010

Altruism in insect societies and beyond: voluntary or enforced?

scientific article published on 20 December 2007

An agent-based model to investigate the roles of attractive and repellent pheromones in ant decision making during foraging.

scientific article

An evolutionary ecology of individual differences

scientific article published on 16 August 2012

Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality

scientific article

Ant foraging on complex trails: route learning and the role of trail pheromones in Lasius niger.

scientific article published on 12 September 2012

Appetite for self-destruction: suicidal biting as a nest defense strategy in Trigona stingless bees

scientific article

Are mistakes inevitable? Sex allocation specialization by workers can reduce the genetic information needed to assess queen mating frequency

scientific article published on 12 September 2006

Both hygienic and non-hygienic honeybee, , colonies remove dead and diseased larvae from open brood cells

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Bourgeois behavior and freeloading in the colonial orb web spider Parawixia bistriata (Araneae, Araneidae).

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Busy Bees: Variation in Insect Flower-Visiting Rates across Multiple Plant Species

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Caffeinated forage tricks honeybees into increasing foraging and recruitment behaviors

scientific article

Co-occurrence of three types of egg policing in the Norwegian wasp Dolichovespula norwegica

article by Wim Bonckaert et al published 24 September 2010 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Combined use of pheromone trails and visual landmarks by the common garden ant Lasius niger

scientific article published in 2008

Communication in ants

scientific article

Comparative analysis of worker reproduction and policing in eusocial hymenoptera supports relatedness theory.

scientific article published on 18 October 2006

Comparative methylomics reveals gene-body H3K36me3 in Drosophila predicts DNA methylation and CpG landscapes in other invertebrates.

scientific article

Comparing alternative methods for holding virgin honey bee queens for one week in mailing cages before mating

scientific article

Conflict resolution in insect societies.

scientific article

Context affects nestmate recognition errors in honey bees and stingless bees

scientific article

Coupled computational simulation and empirical research into the foraging system of Pharaoh's ant (Monomorium pharaonis).

scientific article published in August 2004

Dancing bees communicate a foraging preference for rural lands in high-level agri-environment schemes

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Dancing to her own beat: honey bee foragers communicate via individually calibrated waggle dances

scientific article

Darwin's special difficulty: the evolution of “neuter insects” and current theory

scientific article published in 2010

Data reliability in citizen science: learning curve and the effects of training method, volunteer background and experience on identification accuracy of insects visiting ivy flowers

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

Diploid Male Production Results in Queen Death in the Stingless Bee Scaptotrigona depilis.

scientific article published on 6 April 2017

Does the waggle dance help honey bees to forage at greater distances than expected for their body size?

article by Francis L. W. Ratnieks & Kyle Shackleton published 1 April 2015 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Ecology. Clarity on honey bee collapse?

scientific article

Effect of Trail Bifurcation Asymmetry and Pheromone Presence or Absence on Trail Choice by Lasius niger Ants

scientific article

Egg-marking pheromones in honey-bees Apis mellifera

article by Benjamin P Oldroyd et al published 23 March 2002 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Energetic efficiency of foraging mediates bee niche partitioning

scientific article

Enforced altruism in insect societies.

scientific article published in November 2006

Environmental consultancy: dancing bee bioindicators to evaluate landscape “health”

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Evolution. Policing insect societies

scientific article published in January 2005

Experimental Wing Damage Affects Foraging Effort and Foraging Distance in HoneybeesApis mellifera

scientific article published in 2011

FACULTATIVE SEX ALLOCATION BIASING BY WORKERS IN SOCIAL HYMENOPTERA.

scientific article published in March 1991

Factors influencing survival duration and choice of virgin queens in the stingless bee Melipona quadrifasciata.

scientific article published on 11 May 2013

First record of small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray, in South America

Flower constancy in honey bee workers (Apis mellifera) depends on ecologically realistic rewards

scientific article published in April 2011

Flower constancy in insect pollinators: Adaptive foraging behaviour or cognitive limitation? ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Garden centre customer attitudes to pollinators and pollinator-friendly planting

scientific article published in 2019

Garden varieties: How attractive are recommended garden plants to butterflies?

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Geometry explains the benefits of division of labour in a leafcutter ant.

scientific article published in June 2008

Hive Relocation Does Not Adversely Affect Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Foraging

scholarly article by Fiona C. Riddell Pearce et al published 2013 in Psyche

Hygienic behavior in honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): effects of brood, food, and time of the year

scientific article published in December 2013

Hygienic behaviour in Brazilian stingless bees.

scientific article

Incorporating variability in honey bee waggle dance decoding improves the mapping of communicated resource locations

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

Insect communication: 'no entry' signal in ant foraging.

scientific article

Intra-dance variation among waggle runs and the design of efficient protocols for honey bee dance decoding

scientific article

Invasion of sibmating genes in diploid and haplodiploid populations

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Killing and replacing queen-laid eggs: low cost of worker policing in the honeybee

scientific article published on 15 May 2014

Landscape Scale Study of the Net Effect of Proximity to a Neonicotinoid-Treated Crop on Bee Colony Health.

scientific article

Learning and discrimination of individual cuticular hydrocarbons by honeybees (Apis mellifera).

scientific article

Listmania: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Lists of Garden Plants to Help Pollinators

scientific article published on 24 September 2014

Modelling complex biological systems using an agent-based approach ⬇️

scientific article published on November 3, 2011

Most ornamental plants on sale in garden centres are unattractive to flower-visiting insects

scientific article

Negative feedback enables fast and flexible collective decision-making in ants

scientific article

Negative feedback in ants: crowding results in less trail pheromone deposition

scientific article

Nest-mate recognition template of guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) is modified by wax comb transfer

scientific article published on June 2007

Non-transferable signals on ant queen eggs

scientific article published on 7 February 2006

Only full-sibling families evolved eusociality

scientific article published in Nature

Organization enhances collective vigilance in the hovering guards of Tetragonisca angustula bees.

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

Outsmarted by ants

scientific article published in July 2005

Parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, evade policing

scientific article

Partial nectar loads as a cause of multiple nectar transfer in the honey bee (Apis mellifera): a simulation model

scientific article published in May 2003

Paternity in eusocial Hymenoptera

scholarly article by Jacobus J. Boomsma & Francis L. W. Ratnieks published 29 July 1996 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Plants and pollinators: Will natural selection cause an imbalance between nectar supply and demand?

scientific article published in 2021

Power over reproduction in social hymenoptera.

scientific article

Preemptive defensive self-sacrifice by ant workers

scientific article

Pretender punishment induced by chemical signalling in a queenless ant.

scientific article

Quality versus quantity: Foraging decisions in the honeybee (Apis mellifera scutellata) feeding on wildflower nectar and fruit juice

scientific article

Quantifying variation among garden plants in attractiveness to bees and other flower-visiting insects

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Queen Execution and Caste Conflict in the Stingless Bee Melipona beecheii

article by Tom Wenseleers et al published September 2004 in Ethology

Queen Execution, Diploid Males, and Selection For and Against Polyandry in the Brazilian Stingless Bee Scaptotrigona depilis

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Queen control of egg fertilization in the honey bee

article by Francis L. W. Ratnieks & Laurent Keller published 19 October 1998 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Reassessing the role of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) Dufour's gland in egg marking

scientific article published on 2 October 2002

Recognition errors by honey bee (Apis mellifera) guards demonstrate overlapping cues in conspecific recognition

scientific article published on October 2009

Reproduction of Varroa destructor in worker brood of Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera).

scientific article published on January 2002

Reproductive conflict in animal societies: hierarchy length increases with colony size in queenless ponerine ants

scientific article published in 2003

Seasonal variation in exploitative competition between honeybees and bumblebees

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Sex allocation conflict in insect societies: who wins?

scientific article published on 05 August 2009

Social learning: the importance of copying others

scientific article published in August 2010

Survey of insect visitation of ornamental flowers in Southover Grange garden, Lewes, UK.

scientific article published on 6 August 2014

Synergy between social and private information increases foraging efficiency in ants ⬇️

scientific article published on February 16, 2011

Task Partitioning in Insect Societies. II. Use of Queueing Delay Information in Recruitment

scientific article published in November 1999

The Effect of Sex‐Allocation Biasing on the Evolution of Worker Policing in Hymenopteran Societies

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The disproportionate value of ‘weeds’ to pollinators and biodiversity

scientific article published in 2022

The dose makes the poison: have “field realistic” rates of exposure of bees to neonicotinoid insecticides been overestimated in laboratory studies?

scholarly article by Norman L Carreck & Francis L W Ratnieks published January 2014 in Journal of Apicultural Research and Bee World

The evolution of extreme altruism and inequality in insect societies

scientific article

The role of wax and resin in the nestmate recognition system of a stingless bee, Tetragonisca angustula

scientific article published in 2011

The spatial information content of the honey bee waggle dance

Tragedy of the commons in Melipona bees

scientific article published in August 2004

Trail geometry gives polarity to ant foraging networks

scientific article published in December 2004

Trail pheromones: an integrative view of their role in social insect colony organization.

scientific article

Uncovering the complexity of ant foraging trails

scientific article published on January 2012

Using the British National Collection of Asters to Compare the Attractiveness of 228 Varieties to Flower-Visiting Insects.

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

Waggle dance distances as integrative indicators of seasonal foraging challenges

scientific article

When Resistance Is Useless: Policing and the Evolution of Reproductive Acquiescence in Insect Societies.

scientific article published in December 2004

Worker policing and worker reproduction in Apis cerana

scientific article published in 2001

Worker policing by egg eating in the ponerine ant Pachycondyla inversa

scientific article

Worker policing in the honeybee

scientific article published in Nature

Worker reproduction in honey-bees ( Apis ) and the anarchic syndrome: a review

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Working against gravity: horizontal honeybee waggle runs have greater angular scatter than vertical waggle runs

scientific article

Working-class royalty: bees beat the caste system

scientific article

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