Bumblebees under the midnight sun - Monitoring circadian rhythms of bumblebees under continuous daylight, using radio frequency identification (RFID)

• Published in: Nature Precedings
• Main Authors: Stelzer, Ralph, Chittka, Lars
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2008
• Subjects: Psychiatry and Mental health; Arctic; Kilpisjärvi; midnight sun
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2008.1719.1; http://www.nature.com/articles/npre.2008.1719.1.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/npre.2008.1719.1

Abstract Circadian rhythms enable organisms to anticipate and to prepare for predictable changes in their environment. Most previous studies on circadian rhythms focused on solitary animals. However, in social insects, the colony as a superorganism has a foraging rhythm aligned to the patterns of re...