The behavioral regulation of thirst, water collection and water storage in honey bee colonies MM Ostwald, ML Smith, TD Seeley Journal of Experimental Biology 219 (14), 2156-2165, 2016 | 55 | 2016 |
A critical number of workers in a honeybee colony triggers investment in reproduction ML Smith, MM Ostwald, JC Loftus, TD Seeley Naturwissenschaften 101, 783-790, 2014 | 45 | 2014 |
Honey bee sociometry: tracking honey bee colonies and their nest contents from colony founding until death ML Smith, MM Ostwald, TD Seeley Insectes Sociaux 63, 553-563, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
Changing of the guard: mixed specialization and flexibility in nest defense (Tetragonisca angustula) KM Baudier, MM Ostwald, C Grüter, FHID Segers, DW Roubik, TP Pavlic, ... Behavioral Ecology 30 (4), 1041-1049, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
Adaptive tuning of an extended phenotype: honeybees seasonally shift their honey storage to optimize male production ML Smith, MM Ostwald, TD Seeley Animal Behaviour 103, 29-33, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
Social consequences of energetically costly nest construction in a facultatively social bee MM Ostwald, TP Fox, JF Harrison, JH Fewell Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1949), 20210033, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
Multimodal cues facilitate nest recognition in carpenter bee aggregations MM Ostwald, Z Shaffer, SC Pratt, JH Fewell Animal behaviour 155, 45-51, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
Incipiently social carpenter bees (Xylocopa) host distinctive gut bacterial communities and display geographical structure as revealed by full‐length PacBio 16S … MY Handy, DL Sbardellati, M Yu, NW Saleh, MM Ostwald, RL Vannette Molecular Ecology 32 (6), 1530-1543, 2023 | 16 | 2023 |
Ambush Predation of Stingless Bees (Tetragonisca angustula) by the Solitary-Foraging Ant Ectatomma tuberculatum MM Ostwald, SA Ruzi, KM Baudier Journal of Insect Behavior 31, 503-509, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
Temporal and spatial dynamics of carpenter bee sociality revealed by CT imaging MM Ostwald, BR Lyman, Z Shaffer, JH Fewell Insectes Sociaux 67, 203-212, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
Ecological drivers of non-kin cooperation in the Hymenoptera MM Ostwald, BR Haney, JH Fewell Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 768392, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
Cooperation among unrelated ant queens provides persistent growth and survival benefits during colony ontogeny MM Ostwald, X Guo, T Wong, A Malaekeh, JF Harrison, JH Fewell Scientific reports 11 (1), 8332, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
Fluid nest membership drives variable relatedness in groups of a facultatively social bee MM Ostwald, RA Dahan, Z Shaffer, JH Fewell Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 767380, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
Age-based changes in kairomone response mediate task partitioning in stingless bee soldiers (Tetragonisca angustula) KM Baudier, MM Bennett, MM Ostwald, S Hart, TP Pavlic, JH Fewell Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74, 1-9, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
Group-living carpenter bees conserve heat and body mass better than solitary individuals in winter MM Ostwald, TP Fox, WS Hillery, Z Shaffer, JF Harrison, JH Fewell Animal Behaviour 189, 59-67, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
Three-dimensional morphology of the hypertrophied sex pheromone gland in a lek-mating carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina) revealed by micro computed … MM Ostwald, J Alba-Tercedor, RL Minckley, SL Buchmann Apidologie 53 (5), 60, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
Phenotypic divergence in an island bee population: Applying geometric morphometrics to discriminate population‐level variation in wing venation MM Ostwald, CN Thrift, KC Seltmann Ecology and Evolution 13 (5), e10085, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
Social factors in heat survival: multiqueen desert ant colonies have higher and more uniform heat tolerance KM Baudier, MM Ostwald, BR Haney, JM Calixto, FJ Cossio, JH Fewell Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 95 (5), 379-389, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality? MM Ostwald, CRB da Silva, K Seltmann Authorea Preprints, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
Physiological Traits as Predictors of Climate Resistance and Sociality in Female Carpenter Bees NHT Bonnet, MM Ostwald, KC Seltmann | | 2024 |