Publications
2026
Aniagu M, Lagace D, McKelvy D, Van Nest BN (2026) Simulating waggle dance electric fields: a tool for studying honey bee communication. Anim Behav 234: 123469
Van Nest BN, Wagner AE, Joyner ML, Seier E, Moore D. (2026) Quantifying the honey bee dance floor: A data-driven method for defining and comparing waggle dance regions. PLOS One 21: e0341456
2023
Pel AV*, Van Nest BN*, Hathaway SR, Fahrbach SE. (2023) Impact of odorants on perception of sweetness by honey bees. PLOS One 18: e0290129
Privitt JJ, Van Nest BN, Fahrbach SE. (2023) Altered synaptic organization in the mushroom bodies of honey bees exposed as foragers to the pesticide fipronil. Front Bee Sci 1: 1219991
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