scholarly journals The recruiter's excitement - features of thoracic vibrations during the honey bee's waggle dance related to food source profitability

2011 ◽  
Vol 214 (23) ◽  
pp. 4055-4064 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hrncir ◽  
C. Maia-Silva ◽  
S. I. Mc Cabe ◽  
W. M. Farina
Keyword(s):  
Food Source ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Food Source Profitability

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.

scholarly journals Oscillations make a self-scaled model for honeybees’ visual odometer reliable regardless of flight trajectory

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (182) ◽  
pp. 20210567
Author(s):  
Lucia Bergantin ◽  
Nesrine Harbaoui ◽  
Thibaut Raharijaona ◽  
Franck Ruffier
Keyword(s):  
Optic Flow ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Large Range ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Flight Trajectory ◽  
Scaled Model ◽  
Statistical Dispersion ◽  
Visual Odometer ◽  
Robotic Applications

Honeybees foraging and recruiting nest-mates by performing the waggle dance need to be able to gauge the flight distance to the food source regardless of the wind and terrain conditions. Previous authors have hypothesized that the foragers’ visual odometer mathematically integrates the angular velocity of the ground image sweeping backward across their ventral viewfield, known as translational optic flow. The question arises as to how mathematical integration of optic flow (usually expressed in radians/s) can reliably encode distances, regardless of the height and speed of flight. The vertical self-oscillatory movements observed in honeybees trigger expansions and contractions of the optic flow vector field, yielding an additional visual cue called optic flow divergence. We have developed a self-scaled model for the visual odometer in which the translational optic flow is scaled by the visually estimated current clearance from the ground. In simulation, this model, which we have called SOFIa, was found to be reliable in a large range of flight trajectories, terrains and wind conditions. It reduced the statistical dispersion of the estimated flight distances approximately 10-fold in comparison with the mathematically integrated raw optic flow model. The SOFIa model can be directly implemented in robotic applications based on minimalistic visual equipment.

Honeybee waggle dance: recruitment success depends on the dance floor

1996 ◽  
Vol 199 (6) ◽  
pp. 1375-1381 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Tautz
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Dance Floor ◽  
Recruitment Success

The waggle dance of the honeybee Apis mellifera, used to recruit nestmates to a food source, takes place on the surface of the combs in the dark hive. The mechanism of information transfer between dancer and follower bees is not entirely understood. The results presented here reveal a novel factor that must be brought into any consideration of this mechanism, namely that the nature of the floor on which the bees dance has a considerable influence on the recruitment of nestmates to a food source. Dancers on combs with open empty cells recruit three times as many nestmates to a food source as dancers on capped brood cells.

scholarly journals Development of honeybee waggle dance and its differences between recruits and scouts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Ai ◽  
Yuuki Kobayashi ◽  
Toshiyuki Matake ◽  
Shinya Takahashi ◽  
Koji Hashimoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Behavioral Differences ◽  
High Definition ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Summary Statement ◽  
Identification Tags

AbstractThe lifetime development of the waggle dance of 14 honeybees was automatically recorded just after the imaginal molt using high-definition camera modules connected with a Raspberry Pi computer and numbered radio-frequency identification tags fitted to the back of each bee. For most honeybees, waggle dance follow preceded the appearance of the first waggle dance from 1 week after the imaginal molt. The duration per trip increased just after waggle dance follow. Before the appearance of the first waggle dance, the honeybee repeatedly follows waggle dances that indicate a limited number (2–6) of food source locations. We discriminated between two types of foragers with different roles, recruits and novice scouts, by comparing the vectors indicated by the bees’ first waggle dance (sending vectors) with dances they had previously followed (received vectors). Of 14 tagged honeybees, 11 were categorized as recruits and 2 as novice scouts. For recruits (but not for novice scouts), the duration per trip increased significantly after waggle dances follow and substantially increased just before the appearance of the first waggle dance. Moreover, recruits increased the number of times they followed waggle dances indicating the same location, and their first waggle dance indicated this location. These results suggest that the differentiation of these two types of foragers is partly related to behavioral differences after waggle dance follows: whether trip is activated or not by follows a waggle dance.Summary statementBecause of technological difficulties, there are no studies comparing the development of recruit and scout waggle dances. Using miniature radio frequency identification tags, we observed and clarified these developmental processes.List of AbbreviationsANantennaRFIDradio frequency identification.

scholarly journals Social learning of floral odours inside the honeybee hive

2005 ◽  
Vol 272 (1575) ◽  
pp. 1923-1928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter M Farina ◽  
Christoph Grüter ◽  
Paula C Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Associative Learning ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Waggle Dance ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Proboscis Extension Response ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Information Centre ◽  
Proboscis Extension

A honeybee hive serves as an information centre in which communication among bees allows the colony to exploit the most profitable resources in a continuously changing environment. The best-studied communication behaviour in this context is the waggle dance performed by returning foragers, which encodes information about the distance and direction to the food source. It has been suggested that another information cue, floral scents transferred within the hive, is also important for recruitment to food sources, as bee recruits are more strongly attracted to odours previously brought back by foragers in both honeybees and bumble-bees. These observations suggested that honeybees learn the odour from successful foragers before leaving the hive. However, this has never been shown directly and the mechanisms and properties of the learning process remain obscure. We tested the learning and memory of recruited bees in the laboratory using the proboscis extension response (PER) paradigm, and show that recruits indeed learn the nectar odours brought back by foragers by associative learning and retrieve this memory in the PER paradigm. The associative nature of this learning reveals that information was gained during mouth-to-mouth contacts among bees (trophallaxis). Results further suggest that the information is transferred to long-term memory. Associative learning of food odours in a social context may help recruits to find a particular food source faster.

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