Honey bees and social wasps reach convergent architectural solutions to nest-building problems

• Michael L. Smith ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: msmith@ab.mpg.de, mls0154@auburn.edu

  Affiliations Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3454-962X

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• Kevin J. Loope,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Bajaree Chuttong,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Meliponini and Apini Research Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Jana Dobelmann,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

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• James C. Makinson,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia

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• Tatsuya Saga,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

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• Kirstin H. Petersen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Nils Napp

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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