Follower Position Does Not Affect Waggle Dance Information Transfer
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 be...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a4f277b6332d4486bfc0feae4945da042025-02-03T01:30:14ZengWileyPsyche: A Journal of Entomology0033-26151687-74382019-01-01201910.1155/2019/49391204939120Follower Position Does Not Affect Waggle Dance Information TransferParry M. Kietzman0P. Kirk Visscher1Department of Entomology, 216 A Price Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USADepartment of Entomology, Citrus Drive, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USAIt 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4939120 |
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| title | Follower Position Does Not Affect Waggle Dance Information Transfer |
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