Recent Publications
In prep
Moore D, Van Nest BN (in prep) Honey bee foraging: fighting the dogma (a review).
Pel AV, Hathaway SR, Fahrbach SE, Van Nest BN. (in prep) Interaction of odor and taste on perception of sweetness in honey bees.
Privitt JJ, Morrow BW, Fahrbach SE, Van Nest BN. (in prep) Altered development of synaptic organization in the mushroom bodies of honey bees exposed to the pesticide fipronil.
Wagner AE, Van Nest BN, Corrigan C, Seier E, Joyner ML, Moore D. (in prep) Comparing location and clustering patterns of persistent and reticent foragers at the dance floor in the honey bee.
2021
Van Nest BN, Edge AA, Feathers M, Worley AC, Moore D. (2021) Bees provide pollination service to Campsis radicans (Bignoniaceae), a primarily ornithophilous trumpet flowering vine. Ecol Entomol 46: 117-127.
2018
Van Nest BN. (2018) The olfactory proboscis extension response in the honey bee: a classroom exercise in classical conditioning. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ 16: A168-A176.
Van Nest BN, Moore D. (2018) How to train a honey bee. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ 17: T1-T11.
Van Nest BN, Otto MW, Moore D. (2018) High experience levels delay recruitment but promote simultaneous time-memories in honey bee foragers. J Exp Biol 221:jeb187336.
2017
Van Nest BN, Wagner AE, Marrs GS, Fahrbach SE. (2017) Volume and density of microglomeruli in the honey bee mushroom bodies do not predict performance on a foraging task. Dev Neurobiol 77: 1057-1071.
2016
Fahrbach SE, Van Nest BN. (2016) Synapsin-based approaches to brain plasticity in adult social insects. Curr Opin Insect Sci 18: 27–34
Van Nest BN, Wagner AE, Hobbs CN, Moore D. (2016) Dance floor clustering: food-anticipatory behavior in persistent and reticent honey bee foragers. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 70: 1961–1973
2013
Wagner AE, Van Nest BN, Hobbs CN, Moore D. (2013) Persistence, reticence, and the management of multiple time memories by forager honey bees. J Exp Biol 216: 1131–41
2012
Edge AA, Van Nest BN, Johnson JN, Miller SN, Naeger N, Boyd S, Moore D. (2012) Diel nectar secretion rhythms in squash (Cucurbita pepo): influences on honey bee (Apis mellifera) foraging behavior. Apidologie 43: 1–16.
Van Nest BN, Moore D. (2012) Energetically optimal foraging strategy is emergent property of timekeeping behavior in honey bees. Behav Ecol 23: 649–58.
2011
Moore D, Van Nest BN, Seier E. (2011) Diminishing returns: the influence of experience and environment on time-memory extinction in honey bee foragers. J Comp Physiol A 197: 641–51.
Naeger N, Van Nest BN, Johnson JN, Boyd SD, Southey BR, Rodriguez-Zas SL, Moore D, Robinson GE. (2011) Neurogenomic signatures of spatiotemporal memories in time-trained forager honey bees. J Exp Biol 214: 979–87.