Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. The Issues -- 1.1. The Evolution of Biological Organization -- 1.2. The Honey Bee Colony as a Unit of Function -- 1.3. Analytic Scheme -- 2. The Honey Bee Colony -- 2.1. Worker Anatomy and...
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. The Issues -- 1.1. The Evolution of Biological Organization -- 1.2. The Honey Bee Colony as a Unit of Function -- 1.3. Analytic Scheme -- 2. The Honey Bee Colony -- 2.1. Worker Anatomy and Physiology -- 2.2. Worker Life History -- 2.3. Nest Architecture -- 2.4. The Annual Cycle of a Colony -- 2.5. Communication about Food Sources -- 2.6. Food Collection and Honey Production -- 3. The Foraging Abilities of a Colony -- 3.1. Exploiting Food Sources over a Vast Region around the Hive -- 3.2. Surveying the Countryside for Rich Food Sources -- 3.3. Responding Quickly to Valuable Discoveries -- 3.4. Choosing among Food Sources -- 3.5. Adjusting Selectivity in Relation to Forage Abundance -- 3.6. Regulating Comb Construction -- 3.7. Regulating Pollen Collection -- 3.8. Regulating Water Collection -- Summary -- Part II: Experimental Analysis -- 4. Methods and Equipment -- 4.1. The Observation Hive -- 4.2. The Hut for the Observation Hive -- 4.3. The Bees -- 4.4. Sugar Water Feeders -- 4.5. Labeling Bees -- 4.6. Measuring the Total Number of Bees Visiting a Feeder -- 4.7. Observing Bees of Known Age -- 4.8. Recording the Behavior of Bees in the Hive -- 4.9. The Scale Hive -- 4.10. Censusing a Colony -- 5. Allocation of Labor among Forage Sites -- How a Colony Acquires Information about Food Sources -- 5.1. Which Bees Gather the Information? -- 5.2. Which Information Is Shared? -- 5.3. Where Information Is Shared inside the Hive -- 5.4. The Coding of Information about Profitability -- 5.5. The Bees' Criterion of Profitability -- 5.6. The Relationship between Nectar-Source Profitability and Waggle Dance Duration -- 5.7. The Adaptive Tuning of Dance Thresholds -- 5.8. How a Forager Determines the Profitability of a Nectar Source -- Summary -- How a Colony Acts on Information about Food Sources.
