... kashmirensis are shallower than those of the tropical Apis indica , highlighting geographic variation in waggle dance behavior within A. cerana lineages. Honey bees Waggle dance Communication Geographic variation Odometer European Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010663...

... with distance than the sparse vegetation condition in A. florea but not in A. cerana . Our findings suggest that contrast sensitivity of the waggle dance odometer might vary among honey bee species. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) Competing interests The authors declare...

...Ryuichi Okada; Tadaaki Akamatsu; Kanako Iwata; Hidetoshi Ikeno; Toshifumi Kimura; Mizue Ohashi; Hitoshi Aonuma; Etsuro Ito SUMMARY A honeybee informs her nestmates about the location of a profitable food source that she has visited by means of a waggle dance: a round dance and a figure-of-eight...

...Michael Hrncir; Camila Maia-Silva; Sofia I. Mc Cabe; Walter M. Farina SUMMARY The honey bee's waggle dance constitutes a remarkable example of an efficient code allowing social exploitation of available feeding sites. In addition to indicating the position (distance, direction) of a food patch...

... and nest ambient air temperature) than bees who tremble danced or simply walked on the nest floor without recruiting between foraging bouts. However, recruiter T th was not correlated with finer-scale measures of motivation: the number of waggle dance circuits or waggle dance return phase duration...

...Rodrigo J. De Marco; Juan M. Gurevitz; Randolf Menzel SUMMARY A honeybee's waggle dance is an intriguing example of multisensory convergence, central processing and symbolic information transfer. It conveys to bees and human observers the position of a relatively small area at the endpoint...

...Rodrigo De Marco; Randolf Menzel SUMMARY Apis mellifera bees execute waggle dances to recruit other bees to desirable food sources. Several components of the waggle dance are correlated with the direction of and the distance to food. Moreover, recruits use the spatial information encoded...

.... Here, we use chequered tunnels with various colour combinations as a tool to identify the spectral channel used by bees to gauge travel distance. The probability of bees performing waggle dances after a short travel distance correlates only with the low range of the green contrast of the pattern...

..., will perform a tremble dance to recruit additional nectar receiver bees. A forager that experiences a short unloading delay will perform a waggle dance to recruit more nectar foragers. A long unloading delay was until now the only known cause of tremble dancing. However, several studies suggested that factors...

... dance is one of the most striking behaviours that take place on the surface of the comb. A large literature has accumulated on the function of the waggle dance in terms of transmitting the distance and direction of the food source to the followers. Why should bees spend the effort in waggling during...

...James C. Nieh; Jürgen Tautz ABSTRACT Waggle-dancing honeybees produce vibratory movements that may facilitate communication by indicating the location of the waggle dancer. However, an important component of these vibrations has never been previously detected in the comb. We developed a method...

... 1996 ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1996 honeybee waggle dance comb vibration communication Apis mellifera carnica . Foraging honeybees returning to the hive are able to communicate the location of food sources and nest sites during the execution of a ‘dance...

...Juergen Tautz ABSTRACT 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...