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SUBMITTER: Peters JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6364655 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peters Jacob M JM Peleg Orit O Mahadevan L L
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20190101 150
European honey bees ( Apis mellifera) live in large congested nest cavities with a single opening that limits passive ventilation. When the local air temperature exceeds a threshold, the nests are actively ventilated by bees fanning their wings at the nest entrance. Here, we show that colonies with relatively large nest entrances use an emergent ventilation strategy where fanning bees self-organize to form groups, separating regions of continuous inflow and outflow. The observed spatio-temporal ...[more]