Tom Wenseleers

A fair lottery mechanism underlies self-determined caste development in Melipona bees

Supplemental data, R analysis script, figures and tables plus captions associated with the article "A fair lottery mechanism underlies self-determined caste development in Melipona bees"

Hints of self-medication? Pathogen exposure-dependent foraging decisions of bumblebees

Abstract Self-medication is the selective consumption of compounds that reduce infection and is a widespread form of adaptive plasticity across animals. However, relevant medicinal floral compounds remain poorly tested in bees. Here, we used robotic flowers to test the hypothesis...