Ballroom Biology: Recent Insights into Honey Bee Waggle Dance Communications

• मुख्य लेखक: Roger Schurch (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Madeleine Beekman (auth), Margaret J. Couvillon (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Apis mellifera; recruitment; foraging; waggle dance; social insects; observational learning; Honey bee; Communication
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...