Publications of Michael L. Smith

Bailey, C. S.; Marting, P. R.; Smith, M. L.: Honey bees perform fine-scale detailing that continuously reduces comb area after nest expansion. Insectes Sociaux 70 (4), pp. 405 - 412 (2023)

Marting, P. R.; Koger, B.; Smith, M. L.: Manipulating nest architecture reveals three-dimensional building strategies and colony resilience in honeybees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences (London) 290 (1998), 20222565 (2023)

Neubauer, L. C.; Davidson, J. D.; Wild, B.; Dormagen, D. M.; Landgraf, T.; Couzin, I. D.; Smith, M. L.: Honey bee drones are synchronously hyperactive inside the nest. Animal Behaviour 203, pp. 207 - 223 (2023)

Smith, M. L.; Loope, K. J.; Chuttong, B.; Dobelmann, J.; Makinson, J. C.; Saga, T.; Petersen, K. H.; Napp, N.: Honey bees and social wasps reach convergent architectural solutions to nest-building problems. PLoS Biology 21 (7), e3002211 (2023)

Smith, M. L.; Peck, D. T.: Dynamics of honey bee colony death and its implications for Varroa destructor mite transmission using observation hives. Apidologie 54 (1), 13 (2023)

Smith, M. L.; Davidson, J. D.; Wild, B.; Dormagen, D. M.; Landgraf, T.; Couzin, I. D.: Behavioral variation across the days and lives of honey bees. iScience 25 (9), 104842 (2022)

Davidson, J. D.; Vishwakarma, M.; Smith, M. L.: Hierarchical approach for comparing collective behavior across scales: Cellular systems to honey bee colonies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 581222 (2021)

Smith, M. L.; Napp, N.; Petersen, K. H.: Imperfect comb construction reveals the architectural abilities of honeybees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (31), e2103605118 (2021)

Wild, B.; Dormagen, D. M.; Zachariae, A.; Smith, M. L.; Traynor, K. S.; Brockmann, D.; Couzin, I. D.; Landgraf, T.: Social networks predict the life and death of honey bees. Nature Communications 12, 1110 (2021)

Koenig, P. A.; Smith, M. L.; Horowitz, L. H.; Palmer, D. M.; Petersen, K. H.: Artificial shaking signals in honey bee colonies elicit natural responses. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 3746 (2020)

Smith, M. L.; Kingwell, C. J.; Boroczky, K.; Kessler, A.: Colony-level chemical profiles do not provide reliable information about colony size in the honey bee. Ecological Entomology 45 (3), pp. 679 - 687 (2020)

Wood, S.; Henning, J. A.; Chen, L. Y.; McKibben, T.; Smith, M. L.; Weber, M.; Zemenick, A.; Ballen, C. J.: A scientist like me: demographic analysis of biology textbooks reveals both progress and long-term lags. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, 20200877 (2020)

Smith, M. L.: Who steals from a honey stand? American Bee Journal 2018 (May), pp. 585 - 588 (2018)

Smith, M. L.: Queenless honey bees build infrastructure for direct reproduction until their new queen proves her worth. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 72 (12), pp. 2810 - 2817 (2018)

Smith, M. L.: Dinner without reservations. Science 360 (6395), p. 1370 - 1370 (2018)

Smith, M. L.: Silly science not so: Senator Flake’s wastebook and science-funding advice. American Bee Journal 2017 (April), pp. 345 - 346 (2017)

Smith, M. L.; Chen, P.-C.: Larger but not louder: Bigger honey bee colonies have quieter combs. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71 (11), 169 (2017)

Smith, M. L.; Koenig, P. A.; Peters, J. M.: The cues of colony size: How honey bees sense that their colony is large enough to begin to invest in reproduction. The Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (9), pp. 1597 - 1605 (2017)

Loftus, J. C.; Smith, M. L.; Seeley, T. D.: How honey bee colonies survive in the wild: Testing the importance of small nests and frequent swarming. PLoS One 11 (3), e0150362 (2016)

Ostwald, M. M.; Smith, M. L.; Seeley, T. D.: The behavioral regulation of thirst, water collection and water storage in honey bee colonies. The Journal of Experimental Biology 219 (14), pp. 2156 - 2165 (2016)