The defensive response of the honeybee Apis mellifera

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Biology

• Publication date

  2016-11-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1242/jeb.143016PMID 27852760
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Aggression is associated with aerobic glycolysis in the honey bee brain1

  2015influential reference
• How doth the little busy bee: unexpected metabolism.

  2015cited by this paper
• Differential Combinatorial Coding of Pheromones in Two Olfactory Subsystems of the Honey Bee Brain

  2015cited by this paper
• Early-life experience affects honey bee aggression and resilience to immune challenge

  2015cited by this paper
• Using Errors by Guard Honeybees (Apis mellifera) to Gain New Insights into Nestmate Recognition Signals.

  2015cited by this paper
• The Sound and the Fury—Bees Hiss when Expecting Danger

  2015cited by this paper
• Appetitive floral odours prevent aggression in honeybees

  2015cited by this paper
• The energetic basis of behavior: bridging behavioral ecology and neuroscience

  2015cited by this paper
• Report in the Honeybee Lateral Horn

  2014cited by this paper
• Individual responsiveness to shock and colony-level aggression in honey bees: evidence for a genetic component

  2014cited by this paper
• A novel assay to evaluate olfactory modulation of honeybee aggression

  2014cited by this paper
• Pharmacological modulation of aversive responsiveness in honey bees

  2014cited by this paper
• Neural Mechanisms and Information Processing in Recognition Systems

  2014cited by this paper
• Olfactory coding in the insect brain: data and conjectures

  2014influential reference
• Socially responsive effects of brain oxidative metabolism on aggression

  2014influential reference
• Report Altruistic Behavior by Egg-Laying Worker Honeybees

  2013cited by this paper
• Manipulation of colony environment modulates honey bee aggression and brain gene expression

  2013cited by this paper
• Odor Discrimination in Drosophila: From Neural Population Codes to Behavior

  2013cited by this paper
• Single dopaminergic neurons that modulate aggression in Drosophila

  2013influential reference
• A review on self-destructive defense behaviors in social insects

  2012cited by this paper
• The Bite of the Honeybee: 2-Heptanone Secreted from Honeybee Mandibles during a Bite Acts as a Local Anaesthetic in Insects and Mammals

  2012influential reference
• Review of octopamine in insect nervous systems

  2012cited by this paper
• Effects of immunostimulation on social behavior, chemical communication and genome-wide gene expression in honey bee workers (Apis mellifera)

  2012cited by this paper
• A Genetic Analysis of the Stinging and Guarding Behaviors of the Honey Bee

  2012cited by this paper
• Effects of immunostimulation on social behavior, chemical communication and genome-wide gene expression in honey bee workers (Apis mellifera)

  2012cited by this paper
• Octopamine and occupancy: an aminergic mechanism for intruder–resident aggression in crickets

  2011cited by this paper
• Proprioceptors involved in stinging response of the honeybee, Apis mellifera.

  2011cited by this paper
• Behavioral and Neurophysiological Study of Olfactory Perception and Learning in Honeybees

  2011influential reference
• Adaptive behaviour of honeybees (Apis mellifera) toward beetle invaders exhibiting various levels of colony integration

  2011influential reference
• Behavior-specific changes in transcriptional modules lead to distinct and predictable neurogenomic states

  2011cited by this paper
• Winning Fights Induces Hyperaggression via the Action of the Biogenic Amine Octopamine in Crickets

  2011cited by this paper
• Attack or retreat: contrasted defensive tactics used by Cyprian honeybee colonies under attack from hornets.

  2011cited by this paper
• An Alarm Pheromone Modulates Appetitive Olfactory Learning in the Honeybee (Apis Mellifera)

  2010cited by this paper
• Biology and control of Varroa destructor.

  2010cited by this paper
• Alarm Pheromones Do Not Mediate Rapid Shifts in Honey Bee Guard Acceptance Threshold

  2010cited by this paper
• Targeted Manipulation of Serotonergic Neurotransmission Affects the Escalation of Aggression in Adult Male Drosophila melanogaster

  2010cited by this paper
• Honeybee communication: a signal for danger.

  2010cited by this paper
• Defence reactions of Apis mellifera ligustica against attacks from the European hornet Vespa crabro

  2010cited by this paper
• Antennal lobe processing increases separability of odor mixture representations in the honeybee.

  2010cited by this paper
• A negative feedback signal that is triggered by peril curbs honey bee recruitment.

  2010cited by this paper
• Honey bee aggression supports a link between gene regulation and behavioral evolution

  2009cited by this paper
• Anti-predator Fan-blowing in Guard Bees, Apis mellifera capensis Esch

  2009cited by this paper
• Honeybee, Apis mellifera, guards use adaptive acceptance thresholds to limit worker reproductive parasitism

  2009cited by this paper
• Octopamine in male aggression of Drosophila.

  2008cited by this paper
• High frequency sounds produced by Cyprian honeybees Apis mellifera cypria when confronting their predator, the Oriental hornet Vespa orientalis

  2008cited by this paper
• Processing of sting pheromone and its components in the antennal lobe of the worker honeybee.

  2008cited by this paper
• Fly fighting: octopamine modulates aggression.

  2008cited by this paper
• Genotype, Task Specialization, and Nest Environment Influence the Stinging Response Thresholds of Individual Africanized and European Honeybees to Electrical Stimulation

  2008cited by this paper
• The cost of defense in social insects: insights from the honey bee

  2008cited by this paper
• A subset of octopaminergic neurons are important for Drosophila aggression

  2008cited by this paper
• Alarm Pheromone Induces Immediate–Early Gene Expression and Slow Behavioral Response in Honey Bees

  2007cited by this paper
• Flight and fight: a comparative view of the neurophysiology and genetics of honey bee defensive behavior.

  2007influential reference
• Understanding the Logics of Pheromone Processing in the Honeybee Brain: From Labeled-Lines to Across-Fiber Patterns

  2007cited by this paper
• Smothered to death: hornets asphyxiated by honeybees.

  2007cited by this paper
• Serotonin and neuropeptide F have opposite modulatory effects on fly aggression

  2007cited by this paper
• Nest-mate recognition template of guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) is modified by wax comb transfer

  2007cited by this paper
• Wax combs mediate nestmate recognition by guard honeybees

  2006influential reference
• Intra-colonial variation of the sting extension response in the honey bee Apis mellifera

  2006influential reference
• Aminergic control and modulation of honeybee behaviour.

  2006cited by this paper
• An ecological digest of the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida), a symbiont in honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)

  2006cited by this paper
• Neural representation of olfactory mixtures in the honeybee antennal lobe

  2006cited by this paper
• Heat-balling wasps by honeybees

  2005cited by this paper
• Nestmate recognition cues in the honey bee: differential importance of cuticular alkanes and alkenes.

  2005cited by this paper
• Diagnosis of Hymenoptera venom allergy

  2005cited by this paper
• Octopamine and Experience-Dependent Modulation of Aggression in Crickets

  2005cited by this paper
• Pheromones and Animal Behaviour : Communication by Smell and Taste by Tristram

  2004cited by this paper
• Testing the blank slate hypothesis: why honey bee colonies accept young bees

  2004influential reference
• Monoamines and the Orchestration of Behavior

  2004cited by this paper
• Alarm responses caused by newly identified compounds derived from the honeybee sting

  2004cited by this paper
• Binary Trait Loci That Influence Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Guarding Behavior

  2004cited by this paper
• Genotypic effects of honey bee (Apis mellifera) defensive behavior at the individual and colony levels: the relationship of guarding, pursuing and stinging

  2004cited by this paper
• Olfactory information processing in honeybee, Apis mellifera, nestmate recognition

  2004influential reference
• Honeybees mark with scent and reject recently visited flowers

  2004cited by this paper
• (Z)-11-eicosen-1-ol, an important new pheromonal component from the sting of the honey bee,Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera, Apidae.)

  2004cited by this paper
• Defensive behavior of honey bees: organization, genetics, and comparisons with other bees.

  2004cited by this paper
• The effects of adult small hive beetles, Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), on nests and flight activity of Cape and European honey bees (Apis mellifera)

  2003cited by this paper
• Genotypic variation in the expression of guarding behavior and the role of guards in the defensive response of honey bee colonies

  2003cited by this paper
• Aggression in invertebrates.

  2003cited by this paper
• Relative reliability of four field assays to test defensive behaviour of honey bees (Apis mellifera)

  2003cited by this paper
• “Pheromones and Animal Behaviour” - Communication by Smell and Taste”

  2003cited by this paper
• Confirmation of QTL Effects and Evidence of Genetic Dominance of Honeybee Defensive Behavior: Results of Colony and Individual Behavioral Assays

  2002cited by this paper
• Different functions of two alarm substances in the honeybee

  2002cited by this paper
• Honeybee nestmate recognition: the thermal behaviour of guards and their examinees.

  2002cited by this paper
• Social encapsulation of beetle parasites by Cape honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera capensis Esch.)

  2001cited by this paper
• The fight and flight responses of crickets depleted of biogenic amines.

  2000cited by this paper
• Does Honey Bee Sting Alarm Pheromone Give Orientation Information to Defensive Bees?

  2000cited by this paper
• Genetic variation in worker temporal polyethism and colony defensiveness in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

  2000cited by this paper
• A comparison of two assays to test the defensive behaviour of honey bees ((Apis mellifera)

  1999influential reference
• Self-organized defensive behavior in honeybees.

  1999cited by this paper
• Recognition of conspecifics by honeybee guards uses nonheritable cues acquired in the adult stage.

  1999cited by this paper
• Comb wax effects on the ontogeny of honey bee nestmate recognition

  1998cited by this paper
• Quantitative trait loci for honey bee stinging behavior and body size.

  1998cited by this paper
• Post-stinging behavior of worker honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

  1998cited by this paper
• Serotonin, social status and aggression.

  1997cited by this paper
• Alarm pheromone induces stress analgesia via an opioid system in the honeybee.

  1997cited by this paper
• A deterrent response in honeybee (Apis mellifera) foragers: Dependence on disturbance and season

  1996cited by this paper
• Modulation of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) sting response by octopamine

  1995cited by this paper
• The Alarm Pheromones of Queen and Worker Honey Bees

  1995cited by this paper
• Bioassay and apparatus for measuring the stinging response of an isolated worker honey-bee (Apis mellifera L. var. ligustica Spin.)

  1995cited by this paper
• Motor pattern of the stinging response in the honeybee Apis mellifera

  1995cited by this paper

• Substantial variation in larval honey bee nutrition within and among Apis mellifera colonies.

  2026cites this paper
• Social task and aggressiveness shape immunity gene expression levels in the head of highly eusocial bees

  2025cites this paper
• The time of day matters when it comes to yellowjackets’ attacks on honey bees and lavender essential oil can deter wasps from hives

  2025cites this paper
• A 3D group object tracking method for honeybees in open spaces

  2025cites this paper
• Testing learning as alternative to the blank slate hypothesis in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

  2025cites this paper
• Neuroendocrine control of insect aggression: Do environmental stressors modulate aggressive behavior?

  2025cites this paper
• Volatile Organic Compounds Release Under Threat in Bumblebees: Chemical Identification and Antennal Detection

  2025influential citation
• Do Small Social Wasp Colonies Defend Against Large Intruders?

  2025cites this paper
• The Nature of Stigma: Toward a Sociological Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology

  2025cites this paper
• Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views

  2025influential citation
• Integrated Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Insights into “I See You” (ISY) Defensive Behavior in Apis cerana Against Vespa velutina

  2025cites this paper
• Colony defence in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)

  2025cites this paper
• Gut microbiota modulates aversive learning and memory of honeybees (Apis mellifera)

  2025influential citation
• Identification of two odorant receptors tuned to alarm pheromone compounds in the honey bee Apis mellifera

  2025cites this paper
• Strong segregation promotes self-destructive cooperation

  2025cites this paper
• Aversive learning reduces aversive-reinforcer sensitivity in honey bees

  2025cites this paper
• Demographic analysis of behavioral reactions of African bush elephants to a synthetic honey bee alarm pheromone blend

  2025cites this paper
• Consistency and individuality of honeybee stinging behaviour across time and social contexts

  2025cites this paper
• Bio-inspired UAV swarm operation approach towards decentralized aerial electronic defense

  2025cites this paper
• Evaluation of a Varroa-resistant Apis mellifera selected stock under a commercial beekeeping system in Northern Argentina

  2025cites this paper
• Why It’s Time to Reawaken Our Debates on the Aviation Analogy

  2024cites this paper
• Standardized guidelines for Africanized honeybee venom production needed for development of new apilic antivenom

  2024cites this paper
• Honey Robbing: Causes, Impacts and Preventive Measures

  2024cites this paper
• Threshold of defensive response in Apis mellifera (honey bees) and subsequent brain gene expression in reaction to noxious stimuli

  2024cites this paper
• Form, function, and evolutionary origins of architectural symmetry in honey bee nests.

  2024cites this paper
• Within-cavity nest preferences: honey bees favour the entrance rather than the ceiling when initiating their nest

  2024cites this paper
• When the society dictates food search - Neural signalling underlying appetitive motivation in honey bees.

  2024cites this paper
• Strong segregation promotes self-destructive cooperation

  2024cites this paper
• Sister predatory mites collectively protect their eggs against predators

  2024cites this paper
• Seasonal variation in defense behavior in European and scutellata-hybrid honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Southern California

  2023cites this paper
• Comportamento defensivo de Apis mellifera L. africanizadas, no período de inverno no Sul do Brasil

  2023cites this paper
• Phenotypic and genetic characterization of Africanized Apis mellifera colonies with natural tolerance to Varroa destructor and contrasting defensive behavior

  2023cites this paper
• Combining formal methods and Bayesian approach for inferring discrete-state stochastic models from steady-state data

  2023cites this paper
• Neutrophil swarming: Is a good offense the best defense?

  2023cites this paper
• Functional anatomy of the worker honeybee stinger (Apis mellifera)

  2023influential citation
• Expression of subunits of an insecticide target receptor varies across tissues, life stages, castes, and species of social bees

  2022cites this paper
• Diurnality in the defensive behaviour of African honeybees Apis mellifera adansonii and implications for their potential efficacy in beehive fences

  2022cites this paper
• Olfactory Strategies in the Defensive Behaviour of Insects

  2022influential citation
• Defensiveness measurement in honey bees (Apis mellifera) and brain expression of associated genes after noxious stimulus

  2022cites this paper
• Impact of Chronic Exposure to Two Neonicotinoids on Honey Bee Antennal Responses to Flower Volatiles and Pheromonal Compounds

  2022cites this paper
• Genes associated with hot defensive bee ball in the Japanese honeybee, Apis cerana japonica

  2022cites this paper
• Deteriorating microbiomes in agriculture - the unintended effects of pesticides on microbial life

  2022cites this paper
• Context-dependent influence of threat on honey bee social network dynamics and brain gene expression.

  2022cites this paper
• Rheomergy: collective behaviour mediated by active flow-based recruitment

  2022cites this paper
• Influence of model selection and data structure on the estimation of genetic parameters in honeybee populations

  2022cites this paper
• Determining the Performance of Apis Mellifera Bandasii Populations under Different Agro-Ecologies of Central Ethiopia

  2022cites this paper
• Understanding Social Feedback in Biological Collectives with Smoothed Model Checking

  2022cites this paper
• Extracting individual characteristics from population data reveals a negative social effect during honeybee defence

  2022cites this paper
• Organ-specific transcriptome analysis reveals differential gene expression in different castes under natural conditions in Apis cerana

  2021cites this paper
• The effect of Indonesian honey Tetragonula sp. and Indonesian royal jelly Apis mellifera (Ceiba pentandra) to human preputium cell proliferation in serum-free DMEM

  2021cites this paper
• Sexual Dimorphism in Aggression: Sex-Specific Fighting Strategies Across Species

  2021cites this paper
• Colony Defense by Social Insects

  2021cites this paper
• Defensive Behavior and Morphometric Variation in Apis mellifera Colonies From Two Different Agro-Ecological Zones of North-Western Argentina

  2021cites this paper
• Deep learning-based classification models for beehive monitoring

  2021cites this paper
• Interaction between Vespula germanica and Apis mellifera in Patagonia Argentina apiaries

  2021influential citation
• Geosmin suppresses defensive behaviour and elicits unusual neural responses in honey bees

  2021cites this paper
• The mite Varroa destructor lowers the stinging response threshold of honey bees (Apis mellifera)

  2021cites this paper
• The short neuropeptide F regulates appetitive but not aversive responsiveness in a social insect

  2021cites this paper
• Formic acid modulates latency and accuracy of nestmate recognition in carpenter ants

  2021cites this paper
• Special Collection: The Road to Sociality: Integrated Concepts of Social Behavior in Insects Evolutionary and Ecological Pressures Shaping Social Wasps Collective Defenses

  2021cites this paper
• Honeybee communication during collective defence is shaped by predation

  2020influential citation
• Stinging risk and sting pain of the ivy bee, Colletes hederae

  2020cites this paper
• The Evolution of Mass Cell Suicide in Bacterial Warfare

  2020cites this paper
• Colony‐level chemical profiles do not provide reliable information about colony size in the honey bee

  2020cites this paper
• Honey bee virus causes context-dependent changes in host social behavior

  2020influential citation
• Multiple methods of assessing nectar foraging conditions indicate peak foraging difficulty in late season

  2020cites this paper
• Defense response in Brazilian honey bees (Apis mellifera scutellata x spp.) is underpinned by complex patterns of admixture.

  2020cites this paper
• Degradation of an appetitive olfactory memory via devaluation of sugar reward is mediated by 5-HT signaling in the honey bee.

  2020cites this paper
• Honey bee aggression: evaluating causal links to disease-resistance traits and infection

  2020cites this paper
• Pheromone components affect motivation and induce persistent modulation of associative learning and memory in honey bees

  2020cites this paper
• Antipredator tactics: a kin‐selection benefit for defensive spines in coral catfish?

  2020cites this paper
• BAL ARILARINDA SOSYAL VE BİREYSEL BAĞIŞIKLIK

  2020cites this paper
• Insect Olfaction

  2020cites this paper
• Colony Defense, Survival and Reproduction

  2020cites this paper
• DERLEME MAKALESİ BAL ARILARINDA SOSYAL VE BİREYSEL BAĞIŞIKLIK Social Immunity and Individual Immunity in Honey Bees

  2020cites this paper
• The Evolution and Ecology of Bacterial Warfare.

  2019cites this paper
• New approaches to old problems: Removal of phospholipase A2 results in highly active microsomal membranes from the honey bee, Apis mellifera.

  2019cites this paper
• Biogenic amines and activity levels alter the neural energetic response to aggressive social cues in the honey bee Apis mellifera

  2019cites this paper
• Foraging Experiences Durably Modulate Honey Bees’ Sucrose Responsiveness and Antennal Lobe Biogenic Amine Levels

  2019cites this paper
• Heat and Ozone Use in Beekeeping Practices

  2019cites this paper
• Patterns of Vespa velutina invasion in western Iberia and Italy as revealed by mitochondrial and microsatellite markers

  2019cites this paper
• The transcriptomic signature of low aggression in honey bees resembles a response to infection

  2019cites this paper
• Towards Precision Nutrition: A Novel Concept Linking Phytochemicals, Immune Response and Honey Bee Health

  2019cites this paper
• Increased aggression and reduced aversive learning in honey bees exposed to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields

  2019cites this paper
• Complementary Specializations of the Left and Right Sides of the Honeybee Brain

  2019cites this paper
• Colony Defense

  2019cites this paper
• Altering social cue perception impacts honey bee aggression with minimal impacts on aggression-related brain gene expression

  2019cites this paper
• Bee Updated: Current Knowledge on Bee Venom and Bee Envenoming Therapy

  2019cites this paper
• Data-Informed Parameter Synthesis for Population Markov Chains

  2019cites this paper
• Preliminary monitoring on contrasted defensive tactics used by Iranian honey bee Apis mellifera meda against invader Yellow-legged hornet predator (Vespa velutina)

  2019cites this paper
• Mass killing by female soldier larvae is adaptive for the killed male larvae in a polyembryonic wasp

  2019cites this paper
• Aversive Training of Honey Bees in an Automated Y-Maze

  2019cites this paper
• Hissing of A. cerana japonica is not only a direct aposematic response but also a frequent behavior during daytime

  2018cites this paper
• MALDI Imaging Analysis of Neuropeptides in Africanized Honeybee ( Apis mellifera) Brain: Effect of Aggressiveness.

  2018cites this paper
• Advancing behavioural genomics by considering timescale

  2018cites this paper
• Effects of cold anaesthesia on the defensive behaviour of honeybees

  2018cites this paper
• Double-edged heat: honeybee participation in a hot defensive bee ball reduces life expectancy with an increased likelihood of engaging in future defense

  2018cites this paper
• Addressing RFID Misreadings to Better Infer Bee Hive Activity

  2018cites this paper
• Cooperative defence operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honey bee brain

  2018cites this paper
• Double-edged heat: honeybee participation in a hot defensive bee ball reduces life expectancy with an increased likelihood of engaging in future defense

  2018cites this paper