Curriculum Vitae

Thomas Dyer Seeley, Horace White Professor in BiologyDepartment of Neurobiology and BehaviorCornell UniversityIthaca, NY 14853tds5@cornell.edu

Born: June 17, 1952Nationality: U.S.Married to Robin Hadlock Seeley, Ph.D.; 2 children

EducationElementary, middle, and high schools in Ithaca, New YorkDartmouth College, A.B. (summa cum laude, Chemistry), 1974Harvard University, Ph.D. (Biology), 1978

Selected Honors, Awards, Named Public LecturesEagle Scout, 1966Hartshorne Chemistry Medal, Dartmouth College, 1974Elected Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard 1978Morse Prize Fellowship, Yale University, 1983Charles D. Michener Lecture, University of Kansas, 1988Guggenheim Fellow, 1992-1993Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin 1993-1994Hambleton Award, Eastern Apicultural Society, 1994Bee named Neocorynurella seeleyi, 1997Gold Medal for Best Science Book, The Wisdom of the Hive, Apimondia, 1998Plenary Speaker, 50th Anniversary Meeting, Honeybee Science Research Center,

Tamagawa University, 1999Senior Scientist Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2001Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001Felix Santschi Lecture, University of Zürich, 2004W.M. Keck Distinguished Lecturer, North Carolina State University, 2007Elected Fellow, Animal Behavior Society, 2008Deane Lecture, Wellesley College, 2010Public Lecture, California Academy of Sciences, 2010Sir Richard E. Southwick Lecture in Entomology, University of Oxford, 2011Public Lecture, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 2012John T. Emlen Lecture, University of Wisconsin, 2012Alfred S. Romer Lecture, St. Lawrence University, 2012Public Lecture, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Oklahoma City, 2013Carl Friederich von Siemens Foundation Lecture, Munich, 2013Keynote Address, 33rd International Apimondia Congress, Kiev, 2013

Merrill Presidential Teaching Award, Cornell University, 2014Public Lecture, Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, Salt Lake City, 2014Plenary Speaker, 15th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, New

York, 2014 R. Melville Cramer Lecture, Dartmouth College, 2014Public Lecture, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, 2015Robert Woodworth Science Lecture, Bennington College, 2015Keynote Speaker, 150th Anniversary, Danish Beekeepers Association, 2016Golden Goose Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2016

Appointments1978-1980 Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University1980-1986 Assistant and Associate Professor, Yale University1986-1992 Assistant and Associate Professor, Cornell University1992-present Professor of Biology, Cornell University1993-1994 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin2001-2004 Visiting Professor, University of Würzburg2005-08, 13-14 Chairman Cornell University, Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior2013- Horace White Professor in Biology, Cornell University

Books1985 Honeybee Ecology: A Study of Adaptation in Social Life. Princeton University

Press, Princeton.

Japanese edition (1989), Bun'Ichi Sogo Shuppan, Tokyo.Portugese edition (2006), Ecologia da Abelha. Paixao Editores, Porto Alegre.

1995 The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honeybee Colonies. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

German edition (1997), Honigbienen: Im Mikrokosmos des Bienenstocks. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel.Japanese edition (1999), Seidosha, Tokyo.Portugese edition (2009), Paixao Editores, Porto Alegre.

2010 Honeybee Democracy. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

Korean edition (2013) ECO-LIVRES, Seoul.Japanese edition (2013) Seidosha, Tokyo.German edition (2014) Bienendemokratie, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt.French edition (2017) Démocratie chez les Abeilles, Editions Quae, Versailles.Italian edition (2017) La Democracia delle Api, Edizioni Montaonda, San Godenzo

Chinese edition (2017) China CITIC Press

2016 Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

Japanese edition (2017) Seidosha, TokyoGerman edition (2017) Auf der Spur der wilden Bienen. Fischer Verlag, FrankfurtItalian edition (2017) Edizioni Montaonda, San Godenzo

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes

2016 Peck, D.T., M.L. Smith, and T.D. Seeley (2016) Varroa destructor mites can nimbly climb from flowers onto foraging honey bees. PLoS ONE 11:e0167798. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0167798.

2016 Smith, M.L., M.M. Ostwald, and T.D. Seeley. 2016. Honey bee sociometry: tracking honey bee colonies and their nest contents from colony founding until death. Insectes Sociaux 63:553-563

2016 Ostwald, M.M., M.L. Smith, and T.D. Seeley. The behavioral regulation of thirst, water collection, and water storage in honey bee colonies. Journal of Experimental Biology 219:2156-2165.

.2016 Seeley, T.D. 2016. Foreword to The Behaviour and Social Life of Honeybees,

by C. R. Ribbands. International Bee Research Association.

2015 Mikheyev, A.S., M.M. Y. Tin, J. Arora, and T.D. Seeley. Museum samples reveal rapid evolution by wild honey bees exposed to a novel parasite. Nature Communications 6:7991 DOI 10.1038/ncomms8991

2015 Seeley, T.D. and M.L. Smith. Crowding honeybee colonies in apiaries increases their vulnerability to the deadly ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor. Apidologie 46:716-727.

2015 Seeley, T.D. D.R. Tarpy, S.R. Griffin, A. Carcione, and D.A. Delaney. A survivor population of wild colonies of European honeybees in the northeastern United States: investigating its genetic structure. Apidologie 46:654-666.

2015 Smith, M.L, M.M. Ostwald, and T.D. Seeley. Adaptive tuning of an extended phenotype: honey bees seasonally shift their honey storage to optimize male production. Animal Behaviour 103:29-33

2015 Klein, B.A. and T.D. Seeley. The declining use of animal and behavior images in animal behavior journals. Animal Behaviour 103:171-177.

2015 Tarpy, D.R., D.A. Delaney, and T.D. Seeley. Mating frequencies of honey bee queens (Apis mellifera L.) in a population of feral colonies in the northeastern United States. PLoS One 10(3): e0118734

2014 Smith, M.L., M.M. Ostwald, J.C. Loftus, and T.D. Seeley. A critical number of workers in a honeybee colony triggers investment in reproduction. Naturwissenschaften 101:783-790.

2014 Liang, Z.S., H.R. Mattila, S.L. Rodriguez-Zas, B.R. Southey, T.D. Seeley, G.E. Robinson. Comparative brain transcriptomic analyses of scouting across distinct behavioural and ecological contexts in honeybees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281:21041868

2014 Mattila, H.R. and T. D. Seeley. Extreme polyandry improves a honey bee colony’s ability to track dynamic foraging opportunities via greater activity of inspecting bees. Apidologie 45:347-363

2013 Montovan, K.J., N. Karst, L.E. Jones, and T.D. Seeley. 2013. Local behavioral rules sustain the cell allocation pattern in the combs of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera). Journal of Theoretical Biology 336:75-86.

2013 Loope, K.J., T.D. Seeley, and H.R. Mattila. No facultative worker policing in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) Naturwissenschaften 100:473-477.

2013 Rangel, J, H.K. Reeve, and T.D. Seeley. Optimal colony fissioning in social insects: testing an inclusive fitness model with honey bees. Insectes Sociaux 60:445-452.

2012 Rangel, J. and T.D. Seeley. Colony fissioning in honey bees: size andsignificance of the swarm fraction. Insectes Sociaux 29:453-462.

2012 Schlegel, T, P, K. Visscher, and T.D. Seeley. 2012. Beeping and piping:characterization of two mechano-acoustic signals used by honey bees in swarming. Naturwissenschaften 99:1067-1071.

2012 Griffin, S.R., M.L. Smith, and T.D. Seeley. Do honeybees use thedirectional information in round dances to find nearby food sources? AnimalBehaviour 83:1319-1324.

2012 Liang, Z.S., T. Nguyen, H.R. Mattila, S.L. Rodriguez-Zas, T.D. Seeley, and G.E.Robinson. Molecular determinants of scouting behavior in honey bees.Science 335:1225-1228.

2012 Seeley, T.D., P.K. Visscher, T. Schlegel, P.M. Hogan, N.R. Franks, and J.A.R.Marshall. Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making

by honey bee swarms. Science 335:108-111.

2012 Wray, M.K., B.A. Klein, and T.D. Seeley. Honey bees use social informationin waggle dances more fully when foraging errors are more costly. Behavioral Ecology. 23:125-131.

2012 Seeley, T.D. Progress in understanding how the waggle dance improves theforaging efficiency of honey bee colonies. In Eisenhardt D, Galizia G, Giurfa M(ed) Honeybee Neurobiology and Behavior: A Tribute to Randolf Menzel. Springer, Berlin.

2011 Wray, M.K. and T.D. Seeley. Consistent personality differences in househunting behavior but not decision speed in swarms of honey bees (Apis mellifera). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65:2061-2070.

2011 Strassman, J.E., R.E. Page, Jr., G.E. Robinson, and T.D. Seeley. Kinselection and eusociality. Nature 471:E5-6.

2011 Seeley, T.D. and S.R. Griffin. Small-cell comb does not control Varroamites in colonies of honey bees of European origin. Apidologie 42:526-532.

2011 Klein, B.A. and T.D. Seeley. Work or sleep? Honeybee foragersopportunistically nap during the day when forage is not available. Animal Behaviour 82:77-83

2011 Wray, M.K. and T.D. Seeley. Collective personalities in honeybee coloniesare linked to colony fitness. Animal Behaviour 81:559-568.

2011 Mattila, H.R. and T.D. Seeley. Does a polyandrous honeybee queenimprove through patriline diversity the activity of her colony’s scouting foragers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65:799-811.

2011 Girard, M.B., H.R. Mattila, and T.D. Seeley. Recruitment-dance signalsdraw larger audiences when honey bee colonies have multiple patrilines. Insectes Sociaux 58:77-86.

2010 Klein, B.A., A. Klein, M.K. Wray, U.G. Mueller, and T.D. Seeley. Sleepdeprivation impairs precision of waggle dance signaling in honey bees.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 107:22705-22709.

2010 Rangel, J., S.R. Griffin, and T.D. Seeley. Nest-site defense by competinghoney bee swarms during house hunting. Ethology 116:608-618.

2010 Rangel, J., S.R. Griffin, and T.D. Seeley. An oligarchy of nest-site scoutstriggers a honeybee swarm’s departure from the hive. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 66: 979-987.

2010 Mattila, H.R. and T.D. Seeley. Promiscuous honey bee queens generate colonies with a critical minority of waggle-dancing foragers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 64: 875-889.

2009 Rangel, J., H.R. Mattila, and T.D. Seeley. No intracolonial nepotism during colony fissioning in honeybees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276:3895-3900.

2009 List, C., C. Elsholtz, and T.D. Seeley. Independence and interdependence in collective decision making: an agent-based model of nest-site choice by honeybee swarms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 364:755-762.

2008 Seeley, T.D. Martin Lindauer: prime mover in behavioural physiology and sociobiology. Nature 456:718.

2008 Rangel, J. and T.D. Seeley. The signals initiating the mass exodus of a honey bee swarm from its nest. Animal Behaviour 76:1943-1952.

2008 Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher. Sensory coding of nest-site value in honeybee swarms. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3691-3697.

2008 Schultz, K., K.M. Passino, and T.D. Seeley. The mechanism of flight guidance in honeybee swarms: subtle guides or streaker bees? Journal of Experimental Biology. 211:3287-3295.

2008 Klein, B.A., K.M. Olzsowy, A. Klein, K.M. Saunders, and T.D. Seeley. Caste-dependent sleep of worker honey bees. The Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3028-3040.

2008 Wray, M.K., B.A. Klein, H.R. Mattila, and T.D. Seeley. Honeybees do not reject dances for ‘implausible’ locations—reconsidering the evidence for cognitive maps in insects. Animal Behaviour 76: 261-269.

2008 Gardner, K.E., T.D. Seeley, and N.W. Calderone. Do honeybees have two discrete dances to advertise food sources? Animal Behaviour 75: 1291-1300.

2008 Mattila, H.R., K.M. Burke, and T.D. Seeley. Genetic diversity within honeybee colonies increases signal production by waggle-dancing foragers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 275, 809-816.

2008 Rittschof, C.C. and T.D. Seeley. The buzz-run:  how honey bees signal "Time to go!”  Animal Behaviour 75: 189-197.

2008 Passino, K.M., T.D. Seeley, and P.K. Visscher. Swarm cognition in honey bees.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62:401-414.

2007 Mattila, H.R. and T.D. Seeley.  Genetic diversity in honey bee colonies enhances productivity and fitness.  Science 317: 362-364.

2007 Gardner, K.E., T.D. Seeley, and N.W. Calderone.  Hypotheses on the adaptiveness or non-adaptiveness of the directional imprecision in the honey bee’s waggle dance (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apis mellifera).  Entomologica Generalis 29:285-298.

2007 Visscher, P.K. and T.D. Seeley.  Coordinating a group departure:  who produces the piping signals on honeybee swarms?  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 61:1615-1621.

2007 Seeley, T.D.  Honey bees of the Arnot Forest:  a population of feral colonies persisting with Varroa destructor in the northeastern United States. Apidologie 38:19-29.

2007 Seeley, T.D. and D.R. Tarpy.  Queen promiscuity lowers disease within honeybee colonies.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274:67-72.

2006 Nakamura, J. and T.D. Seeley.  The functional organization of resin work in honey bee colonies.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:339-349.

2006 Seeley, T.D., P.K. Visscher, and K.M. Passino.  Group decision making in honey bee swarms.  American Scientist 94:220-229.

2006 Tarpy, D.R. and T.D. Seeley. Lower disease infections in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies headed by polyandrous versus monandrous queens. Naturwissenschaften 93:195-199.

2006 Seeley, T.D.  Foreword to Asian Honey Bees, by B.P. Oldroyd and S. Wongsiri.  Harvard University Press

2006 Passino, K. and T.D. Seeley. Modeling and analysis of nest-site selection by honey bee swarms: the speed and accuracy trade-off.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 59:427-442.

2006 Beekman, M., R.L. Fathke, and T.D. Seeley.  How does an informed minority of scouts guide a honey bee swarm as it flies to its new home?  Animal Behaviour 71:161-171.

2005 Biesmeijer, J.C. and T.D. Seeley.  The use of waggle dance information by honey bees throughout their foraging careers.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  59:133-142.

2005 Seeley, T.D., A.M. Reich, and J. Tautz.  Does plastic comb foundation hinder waggle dance communication?  Apidologie 36:513-521./td>

2005 Pastor, K.A. and T.D. Seeley.  The brief piping signal of the honey bee: begging call or stop signal?  Ethology 111:775-784.

2004 Cully, S.M. and T.D.Seeley.  Self-assemblage formation in a social insect: the protective curtain of a honey bee swarm.  Insectes Sociaux  51:317-324.

2004 Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher.  Quorum sensing during nest-site selection by honeybee swarms.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56:594-601.

2004 Tarpy, D.R., D.C. Gilley, and T.D. Seeley.  Levels of selection in a social insect:  a review of conflict and cooperation during honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen replacement.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55:513-523.

2004 Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher.  Group decision making in nest-site selection by honey bees.  Apidologie.  35:1-16.

2004 Land, B.B. and T.D. Seeley.  The grooming invitation dance of the honey bee.  Ethology.  110:1-10.

2003 Huang, M.H. and T.D. Seeley. Multiple unloadings by nectar foragers in honey bees:  a matter of information improvement or crop fullness?  Insectes Sociaux 50:330-339.

2003 Seeley, T.D.  What studies of communication have revealed about the minds of worker honey bees.  In:  Genes, Behavior, and Evolution in Social Insects, ed. T. Kikuchi, N. Azuma, and S. Higashi.  Pages 21-33. Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo.

2003 Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher.  Choosing a home:  how the scouts in a honey bee swarm perceive the completion of their group decision making. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  54:511-520.

2003 Seeley, T.D.  Beauty and the bees. [Review of Form and Function in the Honey Bee, by Lesley Goodman, International Bee Research Association, 2003.] Nature 424:372-373.

2003 Seeley, T.D., Kleinhenz, M., Bujok, B., Tautz, J.  Thorough warm-up before take-off in honey bee swarms.  Naturwissenschaften 90:256-260.

2003 Seeley, T.D. and A.S. Mikheyev.  Reproductive decisions by honey bee colonies:  tuning investment in male production in relation to success in energy acquisition.  Insectes Sociaux 50:134-138.

2003 Seeley, T.D.  Consensus building during nest-site selection in honey bee swarms:  the expiration of dissent.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 53:417-424.

2002 Seeley, T.D.  Honeybees.  In:  Encyclopedia of Evolution, ed. M. Pagel. Pages 501-502.  Oxford University Press, New York.

2002 Seeley, T.D., S. Kühnholz, and R.H. Seeley. An early chapter in behavioral physiology and sociobiology:  the science of Martin Lindauer.  Journal of Comparative Physiology A: 188:439-453.

2002 Seeley, T.D.  When is self-organization used in biological systems? Biological Bulletin 202:314-318.

2002 Rotjan, R.D., N.W. Calderone, and T.D. Seeley.  How a honey bee colony mustered additional labor for the task of pollen foraging.  Apidologie 33:367-373.

2002 Britton, N.F., S.C. Pratt, N.R. Franks, and T.D. Seeley.   Deciding on a new home:  how do honey-bees agree?  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269:1383-1388.

2002 Seeley, T.D.  The effect of drone comb on a honey bee colony’s production of honey.  Apidologie 33:75-86.

2001 Seeley, T.D. and J. Tautz.  Worker piping in honey bee swarms and its role in preparing for liftoff.  Journal of Comparative Physiology A 187:667-676.

2001 Seeley, T.D.  Nectar source selection by honey bees.  In:  Self-organization in Biological Systems, ed.S. Camazine, J.L.-Deneubourg, and N. Franks.  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.  Pages 188-215.

2001 Seeley, T.D.  A feeling, and a fondness, for the bees.  In:  Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology, ed. L.A. Dugatkin. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. Pages 27-40.

2001 Seeley, T.D., and S.C. Buhrman.  Nest-site selection in honey bees:  how well do swarms implement the “best-of-N” decision rule?  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 49:416-427.

2001 Seeley, T.D.  Decision making in superorganisms:  how collective wisdom arises from the poorly informed masses.  In:  Bounded Rationality:   the Adaptive Toolbox, ed.  G. Gigerenzer and R. Selten. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. Pages 249-261.

2000 Thom, C., T.D. Seeley, and J. Tautz.  Dynamics of labor devoted to nectar foraging in a honey bee colony:  number of foragers versus individual foraging activity.  Apidologie.  31:737-738.

2000 Seeley, T.D., A.S. Mikheyev, and G.J. Pagano.  bees tune both duration and rate of waggle-run production in relation to nectar-source profitability.  Journal of Comparative Physiology A 186:813-819.

2000 Starks, P.T., C.A. Blackie , and T.D. Seeley.  Fever in honey bee colonies. Naturwissenschaften.  87:229-231.

2000 Seeley, T.D.  Ants at Work:  An engaging vacation from scientific reality. [Review of Ants at Work, by Deborah M. Gordon, The Free Press, 1999.] American Scientist 88:173-174.

1999 Weidenmüller, A., and T.D. Seeley.  Imprecision in the waggle dances of honey bees for nearby food sources:  error or adaptation?  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 46:190-199.

1999 Seeley, T.D. and S.C. Buhrman.  Group decision making in swarms of honey bees.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 45:19-31.

1998 Seeley, T.D.  Making a buzz.  [Review of Honeybees of Africa, by H.R. Hepburn and S.E. Radloff, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1998.]  Nature 396:40.

1998 Sherman, P.W., T.D. Seeley, and H.K. Reeve.  Parasites, pathogens, and polyandry in honey bees.  The American Naturalist 151:392-396.

1998 Seeley, T.D.  Thoughts on information and integration in honey bee colonies.  Apidologie 29:67-80.

1998 Seeley, T.D., A. Weidenmüller, and S. Kühnholz.  The shaking signal of the honey bee informs workers to prepare for greater activity.  Ethology 104:10-26.

1998 Kühnholz, S. and T.D. Seeley.  The control of water collection in honey bee colonies.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41:407-422.

1997 Seeley, T.D.  Honey bee colonies are group-level adaptive units.  The American Naturalist 150(supplement):22-41.

1996 Pratt, S. C., S. Kühnholz, T.D. Seeley,  and A. Weidenmüller.  Worker piping associated with foraging in undisturbed queenright colonies of honey bees. Apidologie 27:13-20.

1996 Seeley, T.D., S. Kühnholz, and A. Weidenmüller.  The honey bee's tremble dance stimulates additional bees to function as nectar receivers.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 39: 419-427.

1994 Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley. Colony migration in the tropical honey bee Apis dorsata F. (Hymenoptera: Apidae).  Insectes Sociaux 41:129-140.

1994 Seeley, T.D. and C.A. Tovey.  Why search time to find a food-storer bee accurately indicates the relative rates of nectar collecting and nectar processing in honey bee colonie Animal Behaviour 47:311-316.

1994 Seeley, T.D. Honey bee foragers as sensory units of their colonies.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 34:51-62.

1993 Seeley, T.D.  Foreword to The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees, by K. von Frisch.  Harvard University Press.

1992 Seeley, T.D.  Spreading the truth.  [Review of Killer Bees:   The Africanized Honey Bee in the Americas, by Mark L. Winston, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1992]. Nature

1992 Seeley, T.D.  The tremble dance of the honey bee:  message and meanings. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 31:375-383.

1992 Bartholdi, J.J., T.D. Seeley, C.A. Tovey, and J.H. Vande Vate.  The pattern and effectiveness of forager allocation among flower patches in honey bee colonies.  Journal of Theoretical Biology 160:23-40.

1992 Seeley, T.D. and W.F. Towne.  Tactics of dance choice in honey bees:  do foragers compare dances?  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 30: 59-69.

1991 Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley.  Distance dialects and foraging range in three Asian honey bee species.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  28:227-234.

1991 Seeley, T.D. and S.A. Kolmes.  Age polyethism for hive duties in honey bees -- illusion or reality?  Ethology  87:284-297.

1991 Seeley, T.D.  Bee warned.  [Review of Anatomy of a Controversy:   The Question of a "Language" Among Bees, by Adrian M. Wenner and Patrick H. Wells, Columbia University Press, New York, 1990.]  Nature 349:11

1991 Seeley, T.D., S. Camazine, and J. Sneyd.  Collective decision-making in honey bees:  how colonies choose among nectar sources.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 28:277-290.

1991 Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley.  Nesting behavior and the evolution of worker tempo in four honey bee species.  Ecology  72:156-170.

1989 Seeley, T.D.  The honey bee colony as a superorganism.  American Scientist 77:546-553.

1989 Visscher, P.K. and T.D. Seeley.  Bee-lining as a research technique in ecological studies of honey bees.  American Bee Journal 129(August):536-539.

1989 Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley.  On the evolution of the dance language.  The American Naturalist 133:580-590.

1989 Seeley, T.D. Social foraging in honey bees: how nectar foragers assess their colony's nutritional status.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  24:181-199.

1989 Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley.  Orientation and foraging in honeybees.  In:  Insect Flight, ed. G. Goldsworthy and C. Wheeler.  Pages 204-230.  CRC Uniscience, New York.

1988 Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher.  Assessing the benefits of cooperation in honey bee foraging: search costs, forage quality, and competitive ability.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  22:229-237. 

1988 Sherman, P.W., T.D. Seeley, and H.K. Reeve.  Parasites, pathogens, and polyandry in social Hymenoptera. The American Naturalist  131:602-610.

1987 Seeley, T.D. The effectiveness of information collection about food sources by honeybee colonies. Animal Behavior 35:1572-1575.

1987 Seeley, T.D. and R.A. Levien.  Social foraging by honeybees: how a colony tracks rich sources of nectar.  In: Neurobiology and Behavior of the Honeybee, ed. R. Menzel and A. Mercer.  Pages 38-53.  Springer Verlag, Heidel

1987 Dyer, F.C. and T.D. Seeley.  Interspecific comparisons of endothermy in honey bees (Apis):  deviations from the expected size-related patterns.  Journal of Experimental Biology 127:1-26.

1986 Seeley, T.D.  Social foraging by honeybees: how colonies allocate foragers among patches of flowers.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  19:343-354.

1986 Seeley, T.D.  Division of labour among worker honeybees.  Ethology 71:249-251.

1986 Evers, C.A. and T.D. Seeley.  Kin discrimination and aggression in honeybee colonies with laying workers.  Animal Behavior 34: 942-944.

1985 Visscher, P.K., R.A. Morse, and T.D. Seeley.  Honey bees choosing a home prefer previously occupied cavities.  Insectes Sociaux 32:217-220.

1985 Seeley, T.D.  1985.  [Review of Defensive Mechanisms in Social Insects, ed. by Henry R. Hermann, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1984.]  American Scientist.

1985 Seeley, T.D. and P.K. Visscher.  Survival of honey bees in cold climates: the critical timing of colony growth and reproduction.  Ecological Entomology 10:81-88.

1985 Seeley, T.D. The information-center strategy of honeybee foraging.  Fortschritte der Zoologie 31:75-90.

1983 Ashton, P.S., M. Meselson, J.P.P. Robinson, and T.D. Seeley.  Origin of yellow rain.  Science 222:366-368.

1983 Baird, D.H. and T.D. Seeley.  An equilibrium theory of queen production in honeybee colonies preparing to swarm.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  13:221-228.

1983 Seeley, T.D.  [Review of Social Insects, Vol. 1-4, ed. by Henry R. Hermann, Academic Press, New York, 1982.]  American Scientist.

1983 Seeley, T.D. Division of labor between scouts and recruits in honeybee foraging.  Behavioral  Ecology and Sociobiology  12:253-259.

1983 Seeley, T.D. Ecology of temperate and tropical honeybee societies.  American Scientist  71:264-272.

1982 Seeley, T.D. Adaptive significance of the age polyethism schedule in honeybee colonies.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  11:287-293.

1982 Visscher, P.K. and T.D. Seeley. Foraging strategy of honeybee colonies in a

temperate deciduous forest.  Ecology 63:1790-1801.

1982 Seeley, T.D.  Colony defense strategies of honeybees in Thailand.  In:  The Biology of Social Insects, ed. M.D. Breed, C.D. Michener, and H.E. Evans.  Pages 285-287.

1982 Seeley, T.D., R.H. Seeley, and P. Akratanakul. Colony defense strategies of the honeybees in Thailand.  Ecological Monographs  52:43-63.

1981 Seeley, T.D. and R.H. Seeley.  A nest of the social wasp, Vespa affinis, in Thailand (Hymenoptera:  Vespidae).  Psyche  87:299-304.

1981 Juska, A., T.D. Seeley, and H.H.W. Velthuis.  How honeybee queen attendants become ordinary workers.  Journal of Insect Physiology  27: 515-519.

1981 Seeley, T.D. and R.D. Fell.  Queen substance production in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies preparing to swarm (Hymenoptera:  Apidae).  Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society  54:192-196.

1981 Seeley, T.D. and B. Heinrich.  Regulation of temperature in the nests of social insects.  In: Insect Thermoregulation, ed. B. Heinrich.  Pages 160-234.  Wiley Press, New York.

1979 Seeley, T.D., R.A. Morse, and P.K. Visscher.  The natural history of the flight of honey bee swarms.  Psyche 86:103-113.

1979 Seeley, T.D. Queen substance dispersal by messenger workers in honey bee colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 5:391-415.

1978 Seeley, T.D. and R.A. Morse. Nest site selection by the honey bee.  Insectes Sociaux 25:323-337.

1978 Seeley, T.D. and R.A. Morse. Dispersal behavior of honey bee swarms.  Psyche 84:199-209.

1978 Seeley, T.D. Life history strategy of the honey bee, Apis mellifera.  Oecologia 32:109-118.

1977 Fell, R.D., J.T. Ambrose,  D.M. Burgett, D. DeJong, R.A. Morse, and T.D. Seeley. Seasonal cycle of swarming in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.).  Journal of Apicultural Research 16:170-173.

1977 Seeley, T.D. Measurement of nest cavity volume by the honey bee (Apis mellifera).  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  2:201-227.

1976 Seeley, T.D. and R.A Morse. The nest of the honey bee (Apis mellifera).  Insectes Sociaux 23:495-512

1974 Seeley, T.D. Atmospheric carbon dioxide regulation in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies.  Journal of Insect Physiology 20:2301-2305.

Popular Articles

2017 Seeley, T.D. 2017. Darwinian beekeeping. American Bee Journal. In press.

2016 Chilcott, A., T. Seeley. 2016. Eavesdropping in the apiary: learning where your bees are foraging by reading their dances. American Bee Journal 156: 1333-1337.

2016 Chilcott, A., T. Seeley. 2016. Den Bien auf der Spur. Deutsches Bienen-Journal (December): 16-18.

2015 Seeley, T., Chilcott, A. The flight guidance mechanisms of honey bee swarms. BeeCraft (April):7-9.

2015 Seeley, T., Chilcott, A. Flight guidance mechanisms of honey bee swarms. How they get where they are going. Bee Culture (June): 29-31.

2015 Seeley, T.D. Schwärme fangen ist leicht. Deutsches Bienen-Journal (April):12-13.

2012 Seeley, T.D. Using bait hives. Bee Culture (April): 73-75.

2012 Seeley, T.D. Capturing swarms with bait hives. The Beekeepers Quarterly (March):33-35.

2011 Seeley, T.D. Die Weisheit des Schwarms. Deutsches Bienen-Journal (May):14-16.

2011 Seeley, T.D. House hunting by honey bees. Bee Craft (May): 9-13.

2011 Seeley, T.D. House hunting honey bees. Northern Woodlands (Summer): 28-31.

2010 Seeley, T.D. 2010. Good vibrations: honeybees in winter. Edible Finger Lakes, Winter: 20-22.

2009 Seeley, T.D. Building smart groups. Santa Fe Institute Bulletin 24:10-12.

2009 Seeley, T.D. Wilde Bienen, zahme Milben. Deutsches Bienen-Journal September:406-408.

2009 Seeley, T.D. and P.W. Sherman. “Animal behaviour” in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 29 July 2009. http://search.eb.com/eb/article-282490. 26 pages.

2009 Seeley, T.D. Zucker macht durstig. Deutsches Bienen-Journal April:16-18. 2009 Seeley, T.D. Collecting water. Bee Culture 137:24-26.

2008 Seeley, T.D. The honey bees of the Arnot Forest. Bee Culture 136 (March): 23-25.

2007 Seeley, T.D.  The beehive as a honey factory. Bee Craft 89:15-17.

2006 Seeley, T.D.  Plastic comb foundation can hinder comb building and honey production.  American Bee Journal 146:955-957.

2005 Seeley, T.D.  Plastic foundation:  Does it mess up the message?  Bee Culture

133 (December):27-28.

2004 Seeley, T.D. Forest bees and Varroa mites.  Bee Culture 132 (July):22-23

2003 Seeley, T.D.  Bees in the forest, still.  Bee Culture 131 (January):24-27.

2002 Seeley, T.D.  Drone comb:  good for bees, but good for beekeepers?  Bee Culture 130(May): 23-25.

2000 Seeley, T.D.  A tale of two dances.  Honeybee Science 21:49-54.

1999 Seeley, T.D.  Born to dance:  choreography in a beehive.  Natural History 108 (June):54-57.

1998 Seeley, T.D.  A tale of two bee dances.  Bee Culture 126 (March):21-23.

1988 Seeley, T.D.  Honeybee society:  a window on biological organization.  Arts and Sciences Newsletter, Cornell University 9(Spring):5.

1987 Seeley, T.D. and R.A. Levien. A colony of mind: the beehive as thinking machine.  The Sciences 27:38-43.

1985 Seeley, T.D., J. Nowicke, M. Meselson, J. Guillemin, and P. Akratanakul.  Yellow rain.  Scientific American 253 (Sept):128-137.

1982 Seeley, T.D. How honeybees find a home.  Scientific American  247 (Oct):158-168.

1982 Seeley, T.D. and R.A. Morse.  Bait hives for honey bees.  Cornell Cooperative Extension Publication, Information Bulletin No. 187. 6 pp.

1979 Morse, R.A. and T.D. Seeley.  New observations on bait hives.  Gleanings in Bee Culture 107 (June): 310-311, 327

1978 Morse, R.A. and T.D. Seeley.  Bait hives.  Gleanings in Bee Culture 106(May):218-220, 242.