OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Insectes Sociaux is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The gut microbiota of bumblebees	41
Development of a standard medium for culturing the termite Reticulitermes speratus	15
Very rapid multi-odour discrimination learning in the ant Lasius niger	15
Royal presence promotes worker and soldier aggression against non-nestmates in termites	14
Protecting pollinators and our food supply: understanding and managing threats to pollinator health	12
Tandem communication improves ant foraging success in a highly competitive tropical habitat	12
A global review of termite sampling methods	12
Dynamic protozoan abundance of Coptotermes kings and queens during the transition from biparental to alloparental care	11
Ecogeographical patterns of body size differ among North American paper wasp species	9
Ant diversity studies in Brazil: an overview of the myrmecological research in a megadiverse country	9
Nutrition induced direct fitness for workers in a primitively eusocial wasp	8
Effect of soldiers on collective tunneling behavior in three species of Reticulitermes (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae)	8
Dumping behaviour of Australian desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) (Hymenoptera:Formicidae)	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
Nesting biology and social organisation of the allodapine bee Exoneura angophorae (Hymenoptera: Apidae): montane environmental constraints yield biased sex allocation yet phenology is unhindered	6
Cuticular hydrocarbons as cues of caste and sex in the German wasp Vespula germanica	6
Brain plasticity indicates key cognitive demands in an animal society: caste comparisons in dampwood termites	6
Comparison of foraging tool use in two species of myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	6
Australian stingless bees detect odours left at food sources by nestmates, conspecifics and honey bees	6
Migration in honey bees	6
Social insect colony size is correlated with rates of molecular evolution	6
Morphology of the exocrine glands associated with the maxillolabial complex in the ant Camponotus japonicus Mayr, 1866 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	6
Seed density in monospecific and mixed patches affects individual and collective foraging in ants	5

Rapid elimination of symbiotic intestinal protists during the neotenic differentiation in a subterranean termite, Reticulitermes speratus	5
Age-related variation of homing range in honeybee males (Apis mellifera)	5
Notes on the biology of Protanilla sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) collected in Ulu Gombak, Peninsular Malaysia	5
Aggressive behavior across ant lineages: importance, quantification, and associations with trait evolution	5
Sociality reduces the probability of eradication success of arthropod pests	5
Tool use in pavement battles between ants: first report of Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using soil-dropping as an interference strategy	4
A call to termitologists: it is time to abandon the use of “lower” and “higher” termites	4
Under pressure: the effect of long-term fungal infection on the encapsulation response in ants	4
Reexamining how ecology shapes the ontogeny of colony size and caste composition in social insects: insights from turtle ants in the arboreal realm	4
Ant foraging path use responds to different types of risk and their encounter probabilities	4
The evidence of temporary social parasitism by Polyrhachis lamellidens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in a Camponotus obscuripes colony (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	4
Would wax glands help us to understand the relationships among corbiculate bees?	4
Predation on nests of three species of Amazon River turtles (Podocnemis) by underground-foraging army ants (Labidus coecus)	4
Description of nest architecture and ecological notes on the bumblebee Bombus (Pyrobombus) lapponicus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini)	4
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
A practical approach to RNA interference for studying gene function in a refractory social insect (on a limited budget)	3
Tool use by foraging ants	3
Effect of diet on incipient colony success for two long-tongued bumblebee species in the laboratory	3
From the bellies of babes: a larval-based approach to ant molecular gut content analysis	3
Uncovering how behavioral variation underlying mutualist partner quality is partitioned within a species complex of keystone seed-dispersing ants	3
The survival consequences of grooming in the honey bee Apis mellifera	3
Twigs in leaf litter: overlap in twig size occupation by nesting ants	3
Could soil granulometry and permeability drive the occurrence of the dune-dwelling ants from the genus Mycetophylax?	3
Ants foraging in sidewalks: particle-use behavior of the fire ant Solenopsis geminata Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	3
Characterization of cuticular hydrocarbons in a subsocial bee, Ceratina calcarata	3
Innate visual attraction in wood ants is a hardwired behavior seen across different motivational and ecological contexts	3
Impact of empty flowers on foraging choice and movement within floral patches by the honey bee, Apis mellifera	3
Corpse removal increases when honey bee colonies experience high Varroa destructor infestation	3
Dominance behaviour and division of labour in the tropical primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia cyathiformis	3
Selection on size variation: more variation in bumble bee workers and in the wild	3