Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations with other members of the colony. [1][2]

2023年1月28日 · The bee dance, also known as the waggle dance, is a communication tool used between worker bees and other colony members. The bee dance is used to share the location of pollen sources, nectar, water, other food sources, threats, and …

2023年3月9日 · Honey bees use a complex form of spatial referential communication. Their “waggle dance” communicates the direction, distance, and quality of a resource to nestmates by encoding celestial cues, retinal optic flow, and relative food value into motion and sound within the nest. We show that correct waggle dancing requires social learning.

2023年6月6日 · What is a waggle dance? The waggle dance is a unique method of communication among female honey bees. Performed by foragers, it relays information about the location and richness of a food source. The dance is a figure-eight pattern consisting of a central “waggle run” and two return loops.

2019年8月20日 · There are 2 types of bee dances: the round dance and the tail-wagging or waggle dance, with a transitional form known as the sickle dance. In all cases the quality and quantity of the food source determines the liveliness of the dances.

Each bee has an individual way of interpreting this dance communication, and Virginia Tech researchers have learned that differences in communication can lead to the dance being more successful not less. Honeybees use the waggle dance to communicate to their sisters where optimal food foraging sites are. Each bee has an individual way of ...

The honey bee dance – also known as the waggle dance, is a form of communication performed by worker honey bees to other members of the honey bee colony. The waggle dance was famously decoded by Austrian scientist, Karl von Frisch – more about that later.

2024年11月25日 · When a forager bee returns to the hive carrying nectar, it performs the waggle dance on the honeycomb to tell other bees about the direction, distance, and quality of the food source. This dance is a sophisticated way of sharing important information that helps the colony forage for food more efficiently.

The waggle dance is a form of social communication between foraging honey bees. It consists of a circuit of figure-eight motions in which the: Angle from the vertical in the hive indicates what angle the foraging patch is from the sun. Straight up means towards the sun. Duration of the waggle phase signifies distance to the target.

4 天之前 · Honeybees communicate the locations of profitable resources using waggle dances. Researchers have used two manual dance decoding methods to infer the spatial foraging patterns of the bees. The ‘waggle run method’ infers foraging distance from waggle duration, representing the actual distance signal of the bees, and the ‘circuit method’ infers foraging distance from the …