Pei-Pei Zhang

DAMAGE OF HONEYBEE COLONIES AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM PERCOLATION PHASE TRANSITION

Recently the mechanism of the damage caused by invasion of Apis mellifera capensis honeybee into the normal A. M. Scutellata colonies became interesting for scientists due to the fact that the mechanism may resemble those of cancer vicious hyperplasia, spreading of some epidemic, and turbulence of society induced by some bad society groups. We suggest a new guess that losing control of self-reproduction disturbs and throws information structure of the society into confuse. We simulate the damage process with a cellular automata based on the guess. The simulation shows that the process is equivalent to a non-equilibrium percolation phase transition. This discussion remind us that the management and monitor on the information network between society members may be a more effective way for avoiding the overflow of the destructor sub-colonies.