Ballroom Biology: Recent Insights into Honey Bee Waggle Dance Communications

• Main Author: Roger Schurch (auth)
• Other Authors: Madeleine Beekman (auth), Margaret J. Couvillon (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Apis mellifera; recruitment; foraging; waggle dance; social insects; observational learning; Honey bee; Communication
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The honey bee waggle dance communication is a complex, unique, at times controversial, and ultimately fascinating behavior. In an elaborate figure-of-eight movement, a returning forager conveys the distance and direction from the hive to resources, usually the nectar and pollen that is their food, a...