Importance of wing movements for information transfer during honey bee waggle dance

Ethology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 123 (12) ◽  
pp. 974-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylwia Łopuch ◽  
Adam Tofilski
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bee ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Waggle Dance

scholarly journals Follower Position Does Not Affect Waggle Dance Information Transfer

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parry M. Kietzman ◽  
P. Kirk Visscher
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bee ◽  
Honey Bees ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Waggle Dance

It is known that the honey bee waggle dance communicates the distance and direction of some item of interest, most commonly a food source, to nestmates. Previous work suggests that, in order to successfully acquire the information contained in a dance, other honey bees must follow the dancer from behind. We revisit this topic using updated methodology, including a greater distance from the hive to the feeder, which produced longer, more easily-read dances. Our results are not congruent with those of earlier work, and we did not conclude that honey bees must follow a dancer from behind in order to obtain the dance information. Rather, it is more likely that a follower can successfully acquire a dance’s information regardless of where she may be located about a dancer.

Simulation of the Feedbacks and Regulation of Recruitment Dancing in Honey Bees

1998 ◽  
Vol 01 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 267-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bee ◽  
Honey Bees ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Fluctuating Environment ◽  
Worker Allocation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Parameter Values ◽  
Tremble Dance ◽  
Threshold Rule

Honey bee nectar foragers returning to the hive experience a delay as they search for a receiver bee to whom they transfer their material. In this paper I describe the simulation of the "threshold rule" (Seeley, 1995) which relates the magnitude of this search delay to the probability of performing a recriutment dance — waggle dance, tremble dance, or no dance. Results show that this rule leads to self-organised near-optimal worker allocation in a fluctuating environment, is extremely robust, and operates over a wide range of parameter values. The reason for the robustness appears to be the particular sytem of feedbacks that operate within the system.

Following the dance: Ground survey of flowers and flower-visiting insects in a summer foraging hotspot identified via honey bee waggle dance decoding

2015 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 265-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Balfour ◽  
Katherine A. Fensome ◽  
Elizabeth E.W. Samuelson ◽  
Francis L.W. Ratnieks
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bee ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Ground Survey ◽  
Flower Visiting

Honey bee waggle dance communication increases diversity of pollen diets in intensively managed agricultural landscapes

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (15) ◽  
pp. 3602-3611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Nürnberger ◽  
Alexander Keller ◽  
Stephan Härtel ◽  
Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bee ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Dance Communication ◽  
Intensively Managed

Incorporating variability in honey bee waggle dance decoding improves the mapping of communicated resource locations

2013 ◽  
Vol 199 (12) ◽  
pp. 1143-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Schürch ◽  
Margaret J. Couvillon ◽  
Dominic D. R. Burns ◽  
Kiah Tasman ◽  
David Waxman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bee ◽  
Waggle Dance
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