Complete Publications List
| 122. | Rittschof, C.C. and T.D. Seeley. 2008. The buzz-run: how honey bees signal "Time to go!” Animal Behaviour 75: 189-197. |
| 121. | Passino, K.M., T.D. Seeley, and P.K. Visscher. 2008. Swarm cognition in honey bees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62:401-414. |
| 120. | Mattila, H.R. and T.D. Seeley. 2007. Genetic diversity in honey bee colonies enhances productivity and fitness. Science 317: 362-364. |
| 119. | Seeley, T.D. 2007. The beehive as a honey factory. Bee Craft 89:15-17. |
| 118. | Gardner, K.E., T.D. Seeley, and N.W. Calderone. 2007. Hypotheses on the adaptiveness or non-adaptiveness of the directional imprecision in the honey bee’s waggle dance (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apis mellifera). Entomologica Generalis 29:285-298. |
| 117. | Visscher, P.K. and T.D. Seeley. 2007. Coordinating a group departure: who produces the piping signals on honeybee swarms? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 61:1615-1621. |
| 116. | Seeley, T.D. 2007. Honey bees of the Arnot Forest: a population of feral colonies persisting with Varroa destructor in the northeastern United States. Apidologie 38:19-29. |
| 115. | Seeley, T.D. and D.R. Tarpy. 2007. Queen promiscuity lowers disease within honeybee colonies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274:67-72. |
| 114. | Seeley, T.D. 2006. Plastic comb foundation can hinder comb building and honey production. American Bee Journal 146:955-957. |
| 113. | Nakamura, J. and T.D. Seeley. 2006. The functional organization of resin work in honey bee colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:339-349. |
| 112. | Seeley, T.D., P.K. Visscher, and K.M. Passino. 2006. Group decision making in honey bee swarms. American Scientist 94:220-229. |
| 111. | Tarpy, D.R. and T.D. Seeley. 2006. Lower disease infections in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies headed by polyandrous versus monandrous queens. Naturwissenschaften 93:195-199. |
| 110. | Seeley, T.D. 2006. Foreword to Asian Honey Bees, by B.P. Oldroyd and S. Wonsiri. Harvard University Press |
| 109. | Passino, K. and T.D. Seeley. 2006. Modeling and analysis of nest-site selection by honey bee swarms: the speed and accuracy trade-off. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59:427-442. |
| 108. | Beekman, M., R.L. Fathke, and T.D. Seeley. 2006. How does an informed minority of scouts guide a honey bee swarm as it flies to its new home? Animal Behaviour 71:161-171. |
| 107. | Seeley, T.D. 2005. Plastic foundation: Does it mess up the message? Bee Culture 133 (December):27-28. |
| 106. | Biesmeijer, J.C. and T.D. Seeley. 2005. The use of waggle dance information by honey bees throughout their foraging careers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59:133-142. |
| 105. | Seeley, T.D., A.M. Reich, and J. Tautz. 2005. Does plastic comb foundation hinder waggle dance communication? Apidologie 36:513-521. |
| 104. | Pastor, K.A. and T.D. Seeley. 2005. The brief piping signal of the honey bee: begging call or stop signal? Ethology 111:775-784. |
| 103. | Cully, S.M. and T.D.Seeley. 2004. Self-assemblage formation in a social insect: the protective curtain of a honey bee swarm. Insectes Sociaux 51:317-324. |
| 102. | Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher. 2004. Quorum sensing during nest-site selection by honeybee swarms. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56:594-601. |
| 101. | Seeley, T.D. 2004. Forest bees and Varroa mites. Bee Culture 132 (July):22-23 |
| 100. | Tarpy, D.R., D.C. Gilley, and T.D. Seeley. 2004. Levels of selection in a social insect: a review of conflict and cooperation during honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen replacement. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55:513-523. |
| 99. | Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher. 2004. Group decision making in nest-site selection by honey bees. Apidologie. 35:1-16. |
| 98. | Land, B.B. and T.D. Seeley. 2004. The grooming invitation dance of the honey bee. Ethology. 110:1-10. |
| 97. | Huang, M.H. and T.D. Seeley. 2003. Multiple unloadings by nectar foragers in honey bees: a matter of information improvement or crop fullness? Insectes Sociaux 50:330-339. |
| 96. | Seeley, T.D. 2003. What studies of communication have revealed about the minds of worker honey bees. In: Genes, Behavior, and Evolution in Social Insects, ed. T. Kikuchi, N. Azuma, and S. Higashi. Pages 21-33. Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo. |
| 95. | Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher. 2003. Choosing a home: how the scouts in a honey bee swarm perceive the completion of their group decision making. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 54:511-520. |
| 94. | Seeley, T.D. 2003. Beauty and the bees. [Review of Form and Function in the Honey Bee, by Lesley Goodman, International Bee Research Association, 2003.] Nature 424:372-373. |
| 93. | Seeley, T.D., Kleinhenz, M., Bujok, B., Tautz, J. 2003. Thorough warm-up before take-off in honey bee swarms. Naturwissenschaften 90:256-260. |
| 92. | Seeley, T.D. and A.S. Mikheyev. 2003. Reproductive decisions by honey bee colonies: tuning investment in male production in relation to success in energy acquisition. Insectes Sociaux 50:134-138. |
| 91. | Seeley, T.D. 2003. Consensus building during nest-site selection in honey bee swarms: the expiration of dissent. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 53:417-424. |
| 90. | Seeley, T.D. 2003. Bees in the forest, still. Bee Culture 131 (January):24-27. |
| 89. | Seeley, T.D. 2002. Honeybees. In: Encyclopedia of Evolution, ed. M. Pagel. Pages 501-502. Oxford University Press, New York. |
| 88. | Seeley, T.D., S. Kühnholz, and R.H. Seeley. 2002. An early chapter in behavioral physiology and sociobiology: the science of Martin Lindauer. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: 188:439-453. |
| 87. | Seeley, T.D. 2002. When is self-organization used in biological systems? Biological Bulletin 202:314-318. |
| 86. | Rotjan, R.D., N.W. Calderone, and T.D. Seeley. 2002. How a honey bee colony mustered additional labor for the task of pollen foraging. Apidologie 33:367-373. |
| 85. | Seeley, T.D. 2002. Drone comb: good for bees, but good for beekeepers? Bee Culture 130(May): 23-25. |
| 84. | Britton, N.F., S.C. Pratt, N.R. Franks, and T.D. Seeley. 2002. Deciding on a new home: how do honey-bees agree? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269:1383-1388. |
| 83. | Seeley, T.D. 2002. The effect of drone comb on a honey bee colony’s production of honey. Apidologie 33:75-86. |
| 82. | Seeley, T.D. and J. Tautz. 2001. Worker piping in honey bee swarms and its role in preparing for liftoff. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 187:667-676. |
| 81. | Seeley, T.D. 2001. Nectar source selection by honey bees. In: Self-organization in biological systems, ed.S. Camazine, J.L.-Deneubourg, and N. Franks. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. Pages 188-215. |
| 80. | Seeley, T.D. 2001. A feeling, and a fondness, for the bees. In: Model systems in behavioral ecology, ed. L.A. Dugatkin. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. Pages 27-40. |
| 79. | Seeley, T.D., and S.C. Buhrman. 2001. Nest-site selection in honey bees: how well do swarms implement the “best-of-N” decision rule? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 49:416-427. |
| 78. | Seeley, T.D. 2001. Decision making in superorganisms: how collective wisdom arises from the poorly informed masses. In: Bounded rationality: the adaptive toolbox, ed. G. Gigerenzer and R. Selten. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. Pages 249-261. |
| 77. | Thom, C., T.D. Seeley, and J. Tautz. 2000. Dynamics of labor devoted to nectar foraging in a honey bee colony: number of foragers versus individual foraging activity. Apidologie. 31:737-738. |
| 76. | Seeley, T.D., A.S. Mikheyev, and G.J. Pagano. 2000. Dancing bees tune both duration and rate of waggle-run production in relation to nectar-source profitability. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 186:813-819. |
| 75. | Seeley, T.D. 2000. A tale of two dances. Honeybee Science 21:49-54. |
| 74. | Starks, P.T., C.A. Blackie , and T.D. Seeley. 2000. Fever in honey bee colonies. Naturwissenschaften. 87:229-231. |
| 73. | Seeley, T.D. 2000. Ants at Work: An engaging vacation from scientific reality. [Review of Ants at Work, by Deborah M. Gordon, The Free Press, 1999.] American Scientist 88:173-174. |
| 72. | Weidenmüller, A., and T.D. Seeley. 1999. Imprecision in the waggle dances of honey bees for nearby food sources: error or adaptation? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 46:190-199. |
| 71. | Seeley, T.D. 1999. Born to dance: choreography in a beehive. Natural History 108 (June):54-57. |
| 70. | Seeley, T.D. and S.C. Buhrman. 1999. Group decision making in swarms of honey bees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 45:19-31. |
| 69. | Seeley, T.D. 1998. A tale of two bee dances. Bee Culture 126 (March):21-23. |
| 68. | Seeley, T.D. 1998. Making a buzz. [Review of Honeybees of Africa, by H.R. Hepburn and S.E. Radloff, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1998.] Nature 396:40. |
| 67. | Sherman, P.W., T.D. Seeley, and H.K. Reeve. 1998. Parasites, pathogens, and polyandry in honey bees. The American Naturalist 151:392-396. |
| 66. | Seeley, T.D. 1998. Thoughts on information and integration in honey bee colonies. Apidologie 29:67-80. |
| 65. | Seeley, T.D., A. Weidenmüller, and S. Kühnholz. 1998. The shaking signal of the honey bee informs workers to prepare for greater activity. Ethology 104:10-26. |
| 64. | Kühnholz, S. and T.D. Seeley. 1998. The control of water collection in honey bee colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41:407-422. |
| 63. | Seeley, T.D. 1997. Honey bee colonies are group-level adaptive units. The American Naturalist 150(supplement):22-41. |
| 62. | Seeley, T.D. 1997. Honigbienen: Im Mikrokosmos des Bienenstocks. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel. 368 pp. (German edition of The Wisdom of the Hive). |
| 61. | Pratt, S. C., S. Kühnholz, T.D. Seeley, and A. Weidenmüller. 1996. Worker piping associated with foraging in undisturbed queenright colonies of honey bees. Apidologie 27:13-20. |
| 60. | Seeley, T.D., S. Kühnholz, and A. Weidenmüller. 1996. The honey bee's tremble dance stimulates additional bees to function as nectar receivers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 39: 419-427. |
| 59. | Seeley, T.D. 1995. The Wisdom of the Hive. Harvard University Press. 302 pp. |
| 58. | Dyer, F.C and T.D. Seeley. 1994. Colony migration in the tropical honey bee Apis dorsata F. (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Insectes Sociaux 41:129-140. |
| 57. | Seeley, T.D. and C.A. Tovey. 1994. Why search time to find a food-storer bee accurately indicates the relative rates of nectar collecting and nectar processing in honey bee colonie Animal Behaviour 47:311-316. |
| 56. | Seeley, T.D. 1994. Honey bee foragers as sensory units of their colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 34:51-62. |
| 55. | Seeley, T.D. 1993. Foreword to The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees, by K. von Frisch. |
| 54a. | Seeley, T.D. 1992. Spreading the truth. [Review of Killer Bees: The Africanized Honey Bee in the Americas, by Mark L. Winston, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1992]. Nature |
| 54. | Seeley, T.D. 1992. The tremble dance of the honey bee: message and meanings. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 31:375-383. |
| 53. | Bartholdi, J.J., T.D. Seeley, C.A. Tovey, and J.H. Vande Vate. 1992. The pattern and effectiveness of forager allocation among flower patches in honey bee colonies. Journal of Theoretical Biology 160:23-40. |
| 52. | Seeley, T.D. and W.F. Towne. 1992. Tactics of dance choice in honey bees: do foragers compare dances? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 30: 59-69. |
| 51. | Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley. 1991. Distance dialects and foraging range in three Asian honey bee species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 28:227-234. |
| 50. | Seeley, T.D. and S.A. Kolmes. 1991. Age polyethism for hive duties in honey bees -- illusion or reality? Ethology 87:284-297. |
| 49a. | Seeley, T.D. 1991. Bee warned. [Review of Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a "Language" Among Bees, by Adrian M. Wenner and Patrick H. Wells, Columbia University Press, New York, 1990.] Nature 349:11 |
| 49. | Seeley, T.D., S. Camazine, and J. Sneyd. 1991. Collective decision-making in honey bees: how colonies choose among nectar sources. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 28:277-290. |
| 48. | Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley. 1991. Nesting behavior and the evolution of worker tempo in four honey bee species. Ecology 72:156-170. |
| 47. | Seeley, T.D. 1989. The honey bee colony as a superorganism. American Scientist 77:546-553. |
| 46. | Visscher, P.K. and T.D. Seeley. 1989. Bee-lining as a research technique in ecological studies of honey bees. American Bee Journal 129(August):536-539. |
| 45. | Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley. 1989. On the evolution of the dance language. The American Naturalist 133:580-590. |
| 44. | Seeley, T.D. 1989. Social foraging in honey bees: how nectar foragers assess their colony's nutritional status. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 24:181-199. |
| 43. | Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley. 1989. Orientation and foraging in honeybees. In: Insect flight, ed. G. Goldsworthy and C. Wheeler. Pages 204-230. CRC Uniscience, New York. |
| 42a. | Seeley, T.D. 1988. Honeybee society: a window on biological organization. Arts and Sciences Newsletter, Cornell University 9(Spring):5. |
| 42. | Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher. 1988. Assessing the benefits of cooperation in honey bee foraging: |
| 41. | Sherman, P.W., T.D. Seeley, and H.K. Reeve. 1988. Parasites, pathogens, and polyandry in social Hymenoptera. The American Naturalist 131:602-610. |
| 40. | Seeley, T.D. 1987. The effectiveness of information collection about food sources by honeybee colonies. Animal Behavior 35:1572-1575. |
| 39. | Seeley, T.D. and R.A. Levien. 1987. A colony of mind: the beehive as thinking machine. The |
| 38. | Seeley, T.D. and R.A. Levien. 1987. Social foraging by honeybees: how a colony tracks rich sources of nectar. In: Neurobiology and Behavior of the Honeybee, ed. R. Menzel and A. Mercer. Pages 38-53. Springer Verlag, Heidel |
| 37. | Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley. 1987. Interspecific comparisons of endothermy in honey bees (Apis): deviations from the expected size-related patterns. Journal of Experimental Biology 127:1-26. |
| 36. | Seeley, T.D. 1986. Social foraging by honeybees: how colonies allocate foragers among patches of flowers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 19:343-354. |
| 35. | Seeley, T.D. 1986. Division of labour among worker honeybees. Ethology 71:249-251. |
| 34. | Evers, C.A. and T.D. Seeley. 1986. Kin discrimination and aggression in honeybee colonies with laying workers. Animal Behavior 34: 942-944. |
| 33. | Visscher, P.K., R.A. Morse, and T.D. Seeley. 1985. Honey bees choosing a home prefer previously occupied cavities. Insectes Sociaux 32:217-220. |
| 32. | Seeley, T.D. 1985. [Review of Defensive Mechanisms in Social Insects, ed. by Henry R. Hermann, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1984.] American Scientist. |
| 31. | Seeley, T.D., J. Nowicke, M. Meselson, J. Guillemin, and P. Akratanakul. 1985. Yellow rain. Scientific American 253 (Sept):128-137. |
| 30. | Seeley, T.D. 1985. Honeybee ecology. Princeton University Press. 201 pp. (also translated and published in Japanese). |
| 29. | Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher. 1985. Survival of honey bees in cold climates: the critical timing of colony growth and reproduction. Ecological Entomology 10:81-88. |
| 28. | Seeley, T.D. 1985. The information-center strategy of honeybee foraging. Fortschritte der Zoologie 31:75-90. |
| 27. | Ashton, P.S., M. Meselson, J.P.P. Robinson, and T.D. Seeley. 1983. Origin of yellow rain. Science 222:366-368. |
| 26. | Seeley, T.D. 1983. Bee tree: natural home of the honey bee. Text for slide set no. 101 of Beekeeping Education Service, Cheshire, Connecticut. |
| 25. | Baird, D.H. and T.D. Seeley. 1983. An equilibrium theory of queen production in honeybee colonies preparing to swarm. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 13:221-228. |
| 24. | Seeley, T.D. 1983. [Review of Social Insects, Vol. 1-4, ed. by Henry R. Hermann, Academic Press, New York, 1982.] American Scientist. |
| 23. | Seeley, T.D. 1983. Division of labor between scouts and recruits in honeybee foraging. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 12:253-259. |
| 22. | Seeley, T.D. 1983. Ecology of temperate and tropical honeybee societies. American Scientist 71:264-272. |
| 21. | Seeley, T.D. 1982. Adaptive significance of the age polyethism schedule in honeybee colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 11:287-293. |
| 20. | Visscher, P.K. and T.D. Seeley. 1982. Foraging strategy of honeybee colonies in a temperate deciduous forest. Ecology 63:1790-1801. |
| 19. | Seeley, T.D. 1982. Colony defense strategies of honeybees in Thailand. In: The biology of social insects, ed. M.D. Breed, C.D. Michener, and H.E. Evans. Pages 285-287. |
| 18. | Seeley, T.D. 1982. How honeybees find a home. Scientific American 247 (Oct):158-168. |
| 17. | Seeley, T.D. and R.A. Morse. 1982. Bait hives for honey bees. Cornell Cooperative Extension Publication, Information Bulletin No. 187. 6 pp. |
| 16. | Seeley, T.D., R.H. Seeley, and P. Akratanakul. 1982. Colony defense strategies of the honeybees in Thailand. Ecological Monographs 52:43-63. |
| 15. | Seeley, T.D. and R.H. Seeley. 1981. A nest of the social wasp, Vespa affinis, in Thailand (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche 87:299-304. |
| 14. | Juska, A., T.D. Seeley, and H.H.W. Velthuis. 1981. How honeybee queen attendants become ordinary workers. Journal of Insect Physiology 27: 515-519. |
| 13. | Seeley, T.D. and R.D. Fell. 1981. Queen substance production in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies preparing to swarm (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 54:192-196. |
| 12. | Seeley, T.D. and B. Heinrich. 1981. Regulation of temperature in the nests of social insects. In: Insect Thermoregulation, ed. B. Heinrich. Pages 160-234. Wiley Press, New York. |
| 11. | Seeley, T.D., R.A. Morse, and P.K. Visscher. 1979. The natural history of the flight of honey bee swarms. Psyche 86:103-113. |
| 10. | Seeley, T.D. 1979. Queen substance dispersal by messenger workers in honey bee colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 5:391-415. |
| 9. | Morse, R.A. and T.D. Seeley. 1979. New observations on bait hives. Gleanings in Bee Culture 107 |
| 8. | Seeley, T.D. and R.A. Morse. 1978. Nest site selection by the honey bee. Insectes Sociaux 25:323-337. |
| 7. | Seeley, T.D. and R.A. Morse. 1978. Dispersal behavior of honey bee swarms. Psyche 84:199-209. |
| 6. | Morse, R.A. and T.D. Seeley. 1978. Bait hives. Gleanings in Bee Culture 106(May):218-220, 242. |
| 5. | Seeley, T.D. 1978. Life history strategy of the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Oecologia 32:109-118. |
| 4. | Fell, R.D., J.T. Ambrose, D.M. Burgett, D. DeJong, R.A. Morse, and T.D. Seeley. 1977. Seasonal cycle of swarming in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Journal of Apicultural Research 16:170-173. |
| 3. | Seeley, T.D. 1977. Measurement of nest cavity volume by the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2:201-227. |
| 2. | Seeley, T.D. and R.A Morse. 1976. The nest of the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Insectes Sociaux 23:495-512 |
| 1. | Seeley, T.D. 1974. Atmospheric carbon dioxide regulation in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. Journal of Insect Physiology 20:2301-2305. |
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