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), S. 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)
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), S. 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.: Queenless honey bees build infrastructure for direct reproduction until their new queen proves her worth. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 72 (12), S. 2810 - 2817 (2018)
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), S. 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), S. 2156 - 2165 (2016)
Peck, D. T.; Smith, M. L.; Seeley, T. D.: Varroa destructor mites can nimbly climb from flowers onto foraging honey bees. PLoS One 11 (12), e0167798 (2016)
Smith, M. L.; Loope, K. J.: Caught in an evolutionary trap: Worker honey bees that have drifted into foreign colonies do not invest in ovary activation. Insectes Sociaux 63 (1), S. 61 - 65 (2016)
Smith, M. L.; Ostwald, M. M.; Seeley, T. D.: Honey bee sociometry: Tracking honey bee colonies and their nest contents from colony founding until death. Insectes Sociaux 63 (4), S. 553 - 563 (2016)
Seeley, T. D.; Smith, M. L.: Crowding honeybee colonies in apiaries can increase their vulnerability to the deadly ectoparasite Varroa destructor. Apidologie 46, 716 (2015)
Smith, M. L.; Ostwald, M. M.; Seeley, T. D.: Adaptive tuning of an extended phenotype: Honeybees seasonally shift their honey storage to optimize male production. Animal Behaviour 103, S. 29 - 33 (2015)
Smith, M. L.; Ostwald, M. M.; Loftus, J. C.; Seeley, T. D.: A critical number of workers in a honeybee colony triggers investment in reproduction. Die Naturwissenschaften 101 (10), S. 783 - 790 (2014)
Smith, M. L.; Mattila, H. R.; Kern Reeve, H.: Partial ovary development is widespread in honey bees and comparable to other eusocial bees and wasps. Communicative & integrative biology 6 (5), e25004 (2013)
Griffin, S. R.; Smith, M. L.; Seeley, T. D.: Do honeybees use the directional information in round dances to find nearby food sources? Animal Behaviour 83 (6), S. 1319 - 1324 (2012)
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