Kavitha Kannan
@kavikan.bsky.social
PhD researcher @UniKonstanz studying how honeybees regulate their social information in their defensive behaviour 🐝🧠
Interested in everything that’s biology 🌳🌍
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Interested in everything that’s biology 🌳🌍
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And hopefully you don’t get stung this bee season!! 🐝😅
April 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
And hopefully you don’t get stung this bee season!! 🐝😅
🐝 To check out the full paper, see here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Consistency and individuality of honeybee stinging behaviour across time and social contexts | Royal Society Open Science
Whether individuals exhibit consistent behavioural variation is a central question
in the field of animal behaviour. This question is particularly interesting in the
case of social animals, as their b...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🐝 To check out the full paper, see here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
🔎 To show this, we tested bees repeatedly in a stinging assay, with a decoy threat that doesn’t let the stinger attach to it. We also show that group composition does not have effect on individual bees.
April 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🔎 To show this, we tested bees repeatedly in a stinging assay, with a decoy threat that doesn’t let the stinger attach to it. We also show that group composition does not have effect on individual bees.
🔎 We’ve discovered that individual bees vary in their stinging response - some choose to sting consistently whereas others don’t sting at all, despite the presence of social factors such as the alarm pheromone or other bees 🐝🚨⚡️
April 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🔎 We’ve discovered that individual bees vary in their stinging response - some choose to sting consistently whereas others don’t sting at all, despite the presence of social factors such as the alarm pheromone or other bees 🐝🚨⚡️