Publications
Jhawar J, Davidson JD, Weidenmüller A, Wild B, Dormagen DM, Landgraf T, Couzin ID, Smith ML. (2023) How honey bees respond to heat stress from the individual to colony-level. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0290
Fischer L, Ramesh D, Weidenmüller A (2023) Sub-lethal but potentially devastating: The novel insecticide flupyradifurone impairs collective brood care in bumblebees. Science of The Total Environment 903, 16609798 (2023) 165527
Nouvian M, Foster JF, Weidenmüller A (2023) Glyphosate impairs aversive learning in bumblebees. Science of The Total Environment 898, 1655276, 1122–1126
Weidenmüller A, Meltzer A, Schwarz A, Neupert S, Kleineidam C (2022) Glyphosate impairs collective thermoregulation in bummlebees. Science, 376, 1122–1126
Weidenmüller A, Chen R, Meyer B (2019) Reconsidering response threshold models -- Short-term response patterns in thermoregulating bumblebees. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 73:112
Garrison LK, Kleineidam C, Weidenmüller A (2018) Behavioral flexibility promotes collective consistency in a social insect. Scientific Reports, 8: 1-11
Meyer B, Weidenmüller A, Chen R, Garcia J (2015) Collective homeostasis and time resolved models of self-organised task allocation. In BICT 2015 – 9th EAI Int. Conf. on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, New York City, NY, December 2015.
Jeanson R, Weidenmüller A (2014) Interindividual variability in social insects – proximate causes and ultimate consequences. Annual Reviews of Biology 3: 671-687
Westhus C, Roces F, Kleineidam C, Weidenmüller A (2013) Behavioural plasticity in the fanning response of bumblebee workers: impact of experience and rate of temperature change. Animal Behaviour 85: 27-34
Weidenmüller A, Mayr C, Kleineidam CJ, Roces F (2009) Preimaginal and adult experience modulates the thermal response behavior of ants. Current Biology 19, 1897-1902
Weidenmüller A (2004) The control of nest climate in bumble bee colonies. Interindividual variability and self-reinforcement in response thresholds. Behavioral Ecology 15: 120-128
Weidenmüller A, Kleineidam C, Tautz J (2002) Collective control of nest climate in bumble bee colonies. Animal Behavior 63: 1065-1071
Spaethe J, Weidenmüller A (2002) Size variation and foraging rate in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). Insectes Sociaux 49: 142-146
Weidenmüller A, Tautz J (2002) In-hive behavior of pollen foragers in honey bee colonies under conditions of high and low pollen need. Ethology 108: 205-221
Weidenmüller A (2001) From individual behavior to collective structure. Pollen collection and nest climate control in social bees. Ph.D. thesis, University of Würzburg
Weidenmüller A, Seeley TD (1999) Imprecision in waggle dances of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) for nearby food sources: error or adaptation? Behav Ecol Sociobiol 46: 190-199
Seeley TD, Weidenmüller A, Kühnholz S (1998) The shaking signal of the honey bee informs workers to prepare for greater activity. Ethology 104: 10-26
Seeley TD, Kühnholz S, Weidenmüller A (1996) The honey bee’s tremble dance stimulates additional bees to function as nectar receivers. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 39: 419-427
Pratt SC, Kühnholz S, Seeley TD, Weidenmüller A (1996) Worker piping associated with foraging in undisturbed queenright colonies of honey bees. Apidologie 27: 13