2026
Honey bee dance communication and recruitment
Oxman KL, Feinerman O, Shafir S. Honey bees increase recruitment effort when dance information is honest. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 80:73.
Published Illustrations
2020
Honey bee viral infection design
Li-Byarlay H, Boncristiani H, Howell G, Herman J, Clark L, Strand MK, Tarpy D, Rueppell O. Transcriptomic and epigenomic dynamics of honey bees in response to lethal viral infection. Frontiers in Genetics. 11:566320.
2014
Ceratina calcarata colony cycle
Rehan SM, Berens AJ, Toth AL. At the brink of eusociality: transcriptomic correlates of worker behaviour in a small carpenter bee. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14:260.
2014
Honey bee nutritional balancing
Hendriksma HP, Oxman KL, Shafir S. Amino acid and carbohydrate tradeoffs by honey bee nectar foragers and their implications for plant-pollinator interactions. Journal of Insect Physiology. 69:56-64.
2013
Halictus ligatus worker nesting
Rehan SM, Rotella A, Onuferko TM, Richards MH. Colony disturbance and solitary nest initiation by workers in the obligately eusocial sweat bee Halictus ligatus. Insectes Sociaux. 60(3):389-392.