OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Insectes Sociaux is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The gut microbiota of bumblebees	33
Insights into the heterochromatin evolution in the genus Melipona (Apidae: Meliponini)	16
Very rapid multi-odour discrimination learning in the ant Lasius niger	14
Royal presence promotes worker and soldier aggression against non-nestmates in termites	13
Development of a standard medium for culturing the termite Reticulitermes speratus	12
Tandem communication improves ant foraging success in a highly competitive tropical habitat	10
Dynamic protozoan abundance of Coptotermes kings and queens during the transition from biparental to alloparental care	10
A global review of termite sampling methods	9
Species differ in worker body size effects on critical thermal limits in seed-harvesting desert ants (Messor ebeninus and M. arenarius)	8
Protecting pollinators and our food supply: understanding and managing threats to pollinator health	8
Effect of soldiers on collective tunneling behavior in three species of Reticulitermes (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae)	7
Visual associative learning and olfactory preferences of the greater banded hornet, Vespa tropica	7
The queens of the stingless bees: from egg to adult	7
RFID-tagged amazonian stingless bees confirm that landscape configuration and nest re-establishment time affect homing ability	7
Australian stingless bees detect odours left at food sources by nestmates, conspecifics and honey bees	6
Vespula wasps show consistent differences in colony-level aggression over time and across contexts	6
Behavioural and neurogenomic responses of host workers to social parasite invasion in a social insect	6
Ecogeographical patterns of body size differ among North American paper wasp species	6
Ant diversity studies in Brazil: an overview of the myrmecological research in a megadiverse country	6
Comparison of foraging tool use in two species of myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	6
Morphology of the exocrine glands associated with the maxillolabial complex in the ant Camponotus japonicus Mayr, 1866 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	6
Nutrition induced direct fitness for workers in a primitively eusocial wasp	6
Ants nesting in dry fallen petioles of Cecropia obtusifolia Bertol. (Urticaceae): vertical stratification and nest site limitation	5
Nesting biology and social organisation of the allodapine bee Exoneura angophorae (Hymenoptera: Apidae): montane environmental constraints yield biased sex allocation yet phenology is unhindered	5
Invasive in the North: new latitudinal record for Argentine ants in Europe	5

Cuticular hydrocarbons as cues of caste and sex in the German wasp Vespula germanica	5
Rapid elimination of symbiotic intestinal protists during the neotenic differentiation in a subterranean termite, Reticulitermes speratus	5
A longitudinal study of nest occupancy, trail networks and foraging in a polydomous wood ant population	5
Seed density in monospecific and mixed patches affects individual and collective foraging in ants	5
Would wax glands help us to understand the relationships among corbiculate bees?	4
Brain plasticity indicates key cognitive demands in an animal society: caste comparisons in dampwood termites	4
Tool use in pavement battles between ants: first report of Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using soil-dropping as an interference strategy	4
Synchronization of alate emergence among colonies and dispersal strategy in the Ryukyu dry-wood termite Neotermes sugioi (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae)	4
Genetic characteristics of the Iranian honey bee, Apis mellifera meda, based on mitochondrial genes of ND4, ND4L and ND6 and their internal transcribed spacers	4
Scaling relationships in Formica ants with continuous worker size variation	4
Social insect colony size is correlated with rates of molecular evolution	4
The best of heavy queens: influence of post-flight weight on queens’ survival and productivity in Acromyrmex subterraneus (Forel, 1893) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	4
Migration in honey bees	4
Age-related variation of homing range in honeybee males (Apis mellifera)	4
Notes on the biology of Protanilla sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) collected in Ulu Gombak, Peninsular Malaysia	4
Cheaters and removalists: the influence of soil disturbance on ant–seed interactions in roadside vegetation	3
Dominance behaviour and division of labour in the tropical primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia cyathiformis	3
Sociality reduces the probability of eradication success of arthropod pests	3
Sampling bias in multiscale ant diversity responses to landscape composition in a human-disturbed rainforest	3
Origin of an evolutionary novelty: the worker phenotype of eusocial wasps	3
Crop-gizzard content and volume variations among afrotropical Apicotermitinae (Blattodea, Termitidae)	3
Effect of diet on incipient colony success for two long-tongued bumblebee species in the laboratory	3
Corpse removal increases when honey bee colonies experience high Varroa destructor infestation	3
From the bellies of babes: a larval-based approach to ant molecular gut content analysis	3
Predation on nests of three species of Amazon River turtles (Podocnemis) by underground-foraging army ants (Labidus coecus)	3
Under pressure: the effect of long-term fungal infection on the encapsulation response in ants	3
The evidence of temporary social parasitism by Polyrhachis lamellidens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in a Camponotus obscuripes colony (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	3
Reexamining how ecology shapes the ontogeny of colony size and caste composition in social insects: insights from turtle ants in the arboreal realm	3
Dumping behaviour of Australian desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) (Hymenoptera:Formicidae)	3
Could soil granulometry and permeability drive the occurrence of the dune-dwelling ants from the genus Mycetophylax?	3
Tool use by foraging ants	3
Aggressive behavior across ant lineages: importance, quantification, and associations with trait evolution	3
Characterization of cuticular hydrocarbons in a subsocial bee, Ceratina calcarata	3
Description of nest architecture and ecological notes on the bumblebee Bombus (Pyrobombus) lapponicus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini)	3
High reproductive skew in the Neotropical paper wasp Polistes lanio	3
The importance of words: revising the social insect lexicon	3
Ant foraging path use responds to different types of risk and their encounter probabilities	3
Virgin queen behaviour and controlled mating in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Meliponini)	2
Ants foraging in sidewalks: particle-use behavior of the fire ant Solenopsis geminata Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	2
Save the survivors: the remarkable ant diversity of the last protected fragment of savanna in Southern Brazil	2
Nesting biology and social organisation of a silk wasp (Microstigmus rosae) from the North–West Ecuadorian Choco	2
Uncovering how behavioral variation underlying mutualist partner quality is partitioned within a species complex of keystone seed-dispersing ants	2
The survival consequences of grooming in the honey bee Apis mellifera	2
The frequency of leaf transfer in Atta cephalotes along horizontal and vertical surfaces near the bases of trees	2
Selection on size variation: more variation in bumble bee workers and in the wild	2
A call to termitologists: it is time to abandon the use of “lower” and “higher” termites	2
Innate visual attraction in wood ants is a hardwired behavior seen across different motivational and ecological contexts	2
Preimaginal caste-related bias in the paper wasp Polistes jokahamae is limited to the first brood	2
Twigs in leaf litter: overlap in twig size occupation by nesting ants	2
Sexual group composition and shelter geometry affect collective decision-making: the case of Periplaneta americana	2

A non-invasive method for sexing first and second instar larvae of termites using external morphology	2
Larval food provisions affect developmental time, body size and vitellogenin titers of Scaptotrigona pectoralis gynes (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)	2
The curse of invasive social insects	1
Effects of Azteca trigona alarm pheromones on heterospecific ant behavior	1
Ant colonies explore novel environments with more slower, curvier walks, particularly near the nest	1
Sociality in the North African small carpenter bee, Ceratina albosticta	1
Mite–termite interaction: does termite mortality mediate mite density?	1
Reproductive and brood-rearing strategies in Alchisme grossa (Hemiptera: Membracidae): genetic analyses of kinship relationships	1
Correction to: Description of nest architecture and ecological notes on the bumblebee Bombus (Pyrobombus) lapponicus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini)	1
Influence of RNA interference-mediated reduction of Or11 on the expression of transcription factor Kr-h1 in Apis mellifera drones	1
Ant nests differentially affect soil chemistry across elevational gradients	1
Survey of the exocrine glands in workers of the ant Leptanilla clypeata	1
Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters	1
How host diet impact the life of termitophiles: insights from the Corotoca–Constrictotermes cyphergaster relationship	1
Scientific note: behavioral dynamics of pollen storage in Melipona quadrifasciata	1
Climate, geography, and the mating phenology of ants	1
Physiological changes of primary reproductives after founding incipient colonies in the subterranean termite Reticulitermes chinensis Snyder	1
Queens of the inquiline social parasite Acromyrmex insinuator can join nest-founding queens of its host, the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior	1
Social eavesdropping by stingless bees	1
Termites reigned by royals close ranks	1
Chemical and genetic evidences that multiple hornet colonies attack honeybee colonies	1
Rest of the carpenter ant Camponotus compressus undergoes a drastic change after mating	1
Which is the best field method for assessing volume and surface area of arboreal termite nests?	1
Genetic and morphometric variation in Schwarziana quadripunctata and Schwarziana mourei (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)	1
Divergence in Bergmann’s clines: elevational variation and heritability of body size in a leaf-cutting ant	1
High numbers of unrelated reproductives in the Australian ‘higher’ termite Nasutitermes exitiosus (Blattodea: Termitidae)	1
No short-term effects of fire on termite diversity in a tropical mountain	1
Built environments influence carpenter bee sociality and vice versa	1
Decision making in honeybees: a time to live, a time to die?	1
Colony composition, phasic reproduction, and queen–worker dimorphism of an oriental non-army ant doryline Cerapachys sulcinodis species complex in northern Thailand	1
First report on the use of Stryphnodendron adstringens (Fabaceae) live fruits as nests by Camponotus sp. and Nesomyrmex spininodis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a Neotropical savanna	1
Rate of molecular evolution and life history traits of social insects	1
Incipient colonies of the neotropical termite Cornitermes cumulans (Isoptera: Termitidae): comparing monogamy and polygamy as reproductive strategies	1
Impact of empty flowers on foraging choice and movement within floral patches by the honey bee, Apis mellifera	1
Comb phenotype of Apis mellifera ligustica is altered after exposure to chronic-localized heat stress	1
A practical approach to RNA interference for studying gene function in a refractory social insect (on a limited budget)	1