title: Modelling social insect foraging.
abstract: Foraging in the social insects can be viewed as a provisioning process, in which workers are powered by one resource (e.g. nectar) to deliver another (e.g. pollen) for the colony. The rate of delivery of a resource depends on the number of workers and how hard they work, which may depend on self-feeding rate. Whether individuals sacrifice their own foraging efficiency in favour of colony performance is unclear, as theory and experiment have not yet properly addressed these issues.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ydenberg
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schmid-Hempel