Margaret Couvillon
Associate Tutor (Life Sciences)

Selected publications

Article

Garbuzov, Mihail, Couvillon, Margaret J, Schürch, Roger and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2015) Honey bee dance decoding and pollen-load analysis show limited foraging on spring-flowering oilseed rape, a potential source of neonicotinoid contamination. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 203. pp. 62-68. ISSN 0167-8809

Couvillon, Margaret J, Boniface, Taylor J, Evripidou, Alexis M, Owen, Christopher J and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2015) Unnatural contexts cause honey bee guards to adopt non-guarding behaviours towards allospecifics and conspecifics. Ethology, 121 (4). pp. 410-418. ISSN 0179-1613

Couvillon, Margaret J, Riddell Pearce, Fiona C, Accleton, Christopher, Fensome, Katherine A, Quah, Shaun K L, Taylor, Esme L and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2015) Honey bee foraging distance depends on month and forage type. Apidologie, 46 (1). pp. 61-70. ISSN 0044-8435

Couvillon, Margaret J, Schürch, Roger and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2014) Dancing bees communicate a foraging preference for rural lands in high-level agri-environment schemes. Current Biology, 24 (11). pp. 1212-1215. ISSN 0960-9822

Couvillon, Margaret J, Schürch, Roger and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2014) Waggle dance distances as integrative indicators of seasonal foraging challenges. PLoS ONE, 9 (4). e93495. ISSN 1932-6203

Wenseleers, Tom, Bacon, Jonathan P, Alves, Denise A, Couvillon, Margaret J, Kärcher, Martin, Nascimento, Fabio S, Nogueira-Neto, Paulo, Ribeiro, Marcia, Robinson, Elva J H, Tofilski, Adam and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2013) Bourgeois behavior and freeloading in the colonial orb web spider Parawixia bistriata (Araneae, Araneidae). American Naturalist, 182 (1). pp. 120-129. ISSN 0003-0147

Couvillon, Margaret J, Phillipps, Hunter L F, Schürch, Roger and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2012) Working against gravity: horizontal honeybee waggle runs have greater angular scatter than vertical waggle runs. Biology Letters, 8 (4). pp. 540-543. ISSN 1744-9561

Couvillon, M J (2012) The dance legacy of Karl von Frisch. Insectes Sociaux, 59 (3). pp. 297-306. ISSN 0020-1812

Couvillon, Margaret J, Riddell Pearce, Fiona C, Harris-Jones, Elisabeth L, Kuepfer, Amanda M, Mackenzie-Smith, Samantha J, Rozario, Laura A, Schürch, Roger and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2012) Intra-dance variation among waggle runs and the design of efficient protocols for honey bee dance decoding. Biology Open, 1 (5). pp. 467-472. ISSN 2046-6390

Couvillon, Margaret J, Zweden, Jelle S and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2012) Model of collective decision-making in nestmate recognition fails to account for individual discriminator responses and non-independent discriminator errors. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66 (2). pp. 339-341. ISSN 0340-5443

Couvillon, Margaret J, Jandt, Jennifer M, Bonds, Jennifer, Helm, Bryan R and Dornhaus, Anna (2011) Percent lipid is associated with body size but not task in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 197 (11). pp. 1097-1104. ISSN 0340-7594

Contrera, F A L, Couvillon, M J and Nieh, J (2011) Hymenopteran group foraging and information transfer about resources. Psyche, 2011 (1-2). ISSN 1687-7438

Contrera, Felipe Andrés León, Couvillon, Margaret J and Nieh, James Charles (2011) Hymenopteran Group Foraging and Information Transfer about Resources. Psyche, 2011. pp. 1-2. ISSN 0033-2615

Couvillon, Margaret J, Hughes, William O H, Perez-Sato, Juan A, Martin, Stephen J, Roy, Gabrielle G F and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2010) Sexual selection in honey bees: colony variation and the importance of size in male mating success. Behavioral Biology, 21 (3). pp. 520-525. ISSN 1045-2249

Couvillon, M J, DeGrandi-Hoffman, G and Gronenberg, W (2010) Africanized honeybees are slower learners than their European counterparts. Naturwissenschaften, 97 (2). pp. 153-160. ISSN 0028-1042

Couvillon, Margaret J, Barton, Sarah N, Cohen, Jennifer A, Fabricius, Onna K, Kärcher, Martin H, Cooper, Lee S, Silk, Matthew J, Helanterä, Heikki and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2010) Alarm pheromones do not mediate rapid shifts in honey bee guard acceptance threshold. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 36 (12). pp. 1306-1308. ISSN 0098-0331

Couvillon, Margaret, Fitzpatrick, Ginny and Dornhaus, Anna (2010) Ambient air temperature does not predict body size of foragers in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens). Psyche, 2010. ISSN 0033-2615

Gronenberg, Wulfila and Couvillon, Margaret J (2010) Brain Composition and Olfactory Learning in Honey Bees. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 93 (3). pp. 435-443. ISSN 1074-7427

Couvillon, Margaret, Jandt, Jennifer M, Duong, Nhi and Dornhaus, Anna (2010) Ontogeny of worker body size distribution in bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) colonies. Ecological Entomology, 35 (4). pp. 424-435. ISSN 0307-6946

Couvillon, Margaret J and Dornhaus, A (2010) Small worker bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) are hardier against starvation than their larger sisters. Insectes Sociaux, 57 (2). pp. 193-197. ISSN 0020-1812

Couvillon, Margaret J and Dornhaus, Anna (2009) Location, location, location: larvae position inside the nest is correlated with adult body size in worker bumble bees (Bombus impatiens). Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, 276 (1666). pp. 2411-2418. ISSN 1471-2954

Couvillon, Margaret J, Roy, Gabrielle G F and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2009) Recognition errors by honey bee (Apis mellifera) guards demonstrate overlapping cues in conspecific recognition. Journal of Apicultural Research, 48 (4). pp. 225-232. ISSN 0021-8839

Tofilski, Adam, Couvillon, Margaret J, Evison, Sophie E F, Helanterä, Heikki, Robinson, Elva J H and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2008) Preemptive Defensive Self-Sacrifice by Ant Workers. American Naturalist, 172 (5). E239-E243. ISSN 0003-0147

Couvillon, Margaret, Wenseleers, T, Imperatriz-Fonseca, V L, Nogueira-Neto, P and Ratnieks, F L W (2008) Comparative Study in Stingless Bees (Meliponini) Demonstrates that Nest Entrance Size Predicts Traffic and Defensivity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21 (1). pp. 194-201. ISSN 1010-061X

Hughes, William O H, Perez-Sato, Juan Antonio, Couvillon, Margaret J and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2008) Effects of hive spacing, entrance orientation, and worker activity on nest relocation by honey bee queens. Apidologie, 39 (6). pp. 708-713. ISSN 0044-8435

Couvillon, Margaret J, Robinson, Elva J H, Atkinson, Beth, Child, Laura, Dent, Katie R and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2008) En Guarde: Rapid changes in honey bee guarding to intense robbing demonstrates individual and colony level responses. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 76 (5). pp. 1653-1658. ISSN 0168-1591

Couvillon, Margaret and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2008) Odour transfer between colonies of the stingless bee Frieseomelitta varia demonstrates that entrance guards use an "undesirable-absent" cue recognition system. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62 (7). pp. 1099-1105.

Couvillon, Margaret, Caple, Jamie P, Endsor, Samuel L, Kärcher, Martin, Russell, Trudy E, Storey, Darren E and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2007) Nest-mate recognition template of guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) is modified by wax comb transfer. Biology Letters, 3 (3). pp. 228-230. ISSN 1744-957X

Perez-Sato, Juan Antonio, Hughes, William O H, Couvillon, Margaret and Ratnieks, Francis L W (2007) Improved technique for introducing four-day old virgin queens to mating hives that uses artificial and natural queen cells for introduction. Journal of Agricultural Research, 46 (1). pp. 28-33. ISSN 0021-8839