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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"waggle dance"”.
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Drinking from the Magic Well: Studies on Honey Bee Foraging, Recruitment, and Sublethal Stress Responses using Waggle Dance Analysis
… of quality foraging resources. Importantly, waggle dance analysis provides a versatile and relatively cost-effective tool for investigating the obstacles that honey bees face, such as habitat loss, in our changing landscapes. While this emerging tool has improved our understanding of honey …
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Waggle Dance Your Own Way: Individuality, Network Structure, and an Herbicide Stressor in Recruitment, Foraging, and Neurobiology in the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.)
The waggle dance of the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) is perhaps the most celebrated animal communication behavior. With a waggle dance, a forager bee who has discovered a profitable resource on the landscape, usually floral nectar or pollen, can inform her nestmates of its location and recruit …
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A little bee told me… using waggle dance analysis and pollen identification to examine foraging of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in mixed agro-urban ecosysems
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Calibration and validation of honey bee foraging flight duration as an estimate of distance flown
… ranges, including our current gold-standard of waggle dance decoding, are unsuitable for use in a large-scale, organic farm context. One potential new method of estimating distance flown is by using a bee's flight duration, or the time she spends outside the hive. However, what is not known is …
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Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Foraging Preferences are Negatively Correlated with Alfalfa Leafcutting Bee (Megachile Rotundata) Productivity in Virginian Landscapes
… map, and analyze the information encoded in the waggle dance communication behavior, which allows us to know where and when bees are collecting high quality forage. Previously we measured honey bee foraging dynamics for two years (2018-2019) by waggle dance decoding at three geographically …
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Aspects of Foraging in Bees: Apple Pollination, Native Bee Populations, and Honey Bee Communication
… foraging efficiency and is achieved by a complex dance language. An interesting phenomenon in the dance language is the presence of distance-dependent error; precision increases as food-source distance increases. Here, I investigate three hypotheses for why there is imprecision within dances. Bees …
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Enduring Coleridge: 'The functions of comparison, judgement, and interpretation'
… if one considers Von Frisch’s theory of the waggle dance of the bee and its implications for speaker competence in relation to grammar. The question is whether or not the rules of generative grammar need to be understood or merely respected at some level by a competent speaker. Are the rules, …
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Enduring Coleridge: 'The functions of comparison, judgement, and interpretation'
… if one considers Von Frisch’s theory of the waggle dance of the bee and its implications for speaker competence in relation to grammar. The question is whether or not the rules of generative grammar need to be understood or merely respected at some level by a competent speaker. Are the rules, …
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Row crop environments provide an all-you-can-eat buffet and pesticide exposure to foraging honey bees
… We decoded, mapped, and analyzed 3460 waggle dances, which communicate the location of where bees collected food, for two full foraging seasons (April – October, 2018-2019), and concurrently collected pollen from returning foragers. We found that bees foraged mostly locally (< 2 km) …
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A Hive Mind: Bounded Rationality and Bees
… dynamics. We decoded, mapped, and analyzed the waggle dances of hives in Blacksburg, Virginia before (2018-19) and after (2022) the conversion of some of their prime habitat through construction. We found that bees increased their foraging nearly four-fold on the microhabitat which were …
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The role of communication in the foraging process of social bees
In the various groups of social bees, different systems of communication about food sources occur. These communication systems are different solutions to a common problem of social insects: efficiently allocating the necessary number of workers first to the task of foraging and second to the most …
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Apple orchards feed and contaminate bees during, but even more so after bloom
… States. We decoded, mapped, and analyzed 3,710 waggle dances, which communicate the location of a valuable resource in the environment, for two full foraging seasons (April-October, 2018-2019), and, concurrent to the dance filming, collected pollen from returning foragers. We found that bees …