Neuroanatomical plasticity and division of labor in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)
type: CreativeWork
description: "There is an aged-based division of labor in the honey bee colony. Adult workers spend the first several weeks performing tasks within the hive, including caring for brood (""nursing""). They then make a dramatic behavioral transition and begin foraging outdoors. Within the dark hive, tasks are regulated primarily by chemosensory cues. A forager integrates both visual and chemosensory information, to successfully navigate through a dynamic environment. The onset of foraging is a natural, substantial behavioral experience, making the honey bee ideal for studying how the mature nervous system reorganizes to produce novel behavior."
abstract: "There is an aged-based division of labor in the honey bee colony. Adult workers spend the first several weeks performing tasks within the hive, including caring for brood (""nursing""). They then make a dramatic behavioral transition and begin foraging outdoors. Within the dark hive, tasks are regulated primarily by chemosensory cues. A forager integrates both visual and chemosensory information, to successfully navigate through a dynamic environment. The onset of foraging is a natural, substantial behavioral experience, making the honey bee ideal for studying how the mature nervous system reorganizes to produce novel behavior."
author: Withers, Ginger Sue
language: eng
keywords: Biology, Neuroscience
date published: 2011-05-07T12:56:41Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:25:17Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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