Author : Stanley Scott Schneider
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Bees
ISBN :
Author : Parry Macdonald Kietzman
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Bees
ISBN : 9781339029184
Many of the activities within honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies rely on the use of communication signals for organization. A classic example of this is in foraging, which is regulated through the use of the waggle dance, a positive feedback signal that recruits other foragers to the advertised food source, the tremble dance, which recruits bees to unload food from incoming foragers, and the stop signal, a negative feedback that acts as a counter to the waggle dance. During the waggle dance, observers touch the dancer with their antennae and follow her through one or more iteration of the dance. Though the results of previous research stated that the followers must be located to the rear of the dancer to receive the information encoded in the dance, I found that bees following from any location relative to the dancer succeeded in locating the advertised food source. In an experiment where half of the bees visiting a feeding station experienced a simulated attack via a pinch with forceps, the pinched bees produced more stop signals and danced fewer waggle dances than bees that had not been pinched. Most of the stop signals observed, however, came from bees that had not visited the feeding station at all. These may have been unloader bees attempting to decrease foraging due to an unmanageable influx of food from the feeding station or foragers that had visited other food sources and were not being unloaded promptly. When the amount of storage space available for food in a colony was manipulated between ample storage space and no storage space, significantly more stop signals and tremble dances were observed when there was no available storage space. This suggests the bees had assessed the lack of storage space and were attempting to decrease their colony's foraging efforts.
Author : Roger Schürch
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Animal communication
ISBN : 2889197654
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, and it remains one of the most sophisticated, known forms of non-human communication. Not surprisingly, since its discovery more than 60 years ago by Karl von Frisch, the dance has been subject to investigations that span from basic biology through human culture and neurophysiology to landscape ecology. Here we collate recent advances in our understanding of the dance.
Author : John Purdy
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0323986196
The Foraging Behavior of the Honeybee (Apis mellifera, L.) provides a scholarly resource for knowledge on the regulation, communication, resource allocation, learning and characteristics of honeybee foraging behavior at the individual and colony level. Foraging, in this context, is the exploration of the environment around a honey bee hive and the collection of resources (pollen, nectar, water, etc.) by bees in the worker caste of a colony. Honeybees have the unique ability to balance conflicting and changing resource needs in rapidly changing environments, thus their characterization as “superorganisms made up of individuals who act in the interest of the whole. This book explores the fascinating world of honey bees in their struggle to obtain food and resources in the ecosystem and environment around the hive. Written by a team of international experts on honey bee behavior and ecology, this book covers current and historical knowledge, research methods and modeling used in the field of study and includes estimates of key parameters of energy utilization, quantities of materials collected, and identifies inconsistencies or gaps in current knowledge in the field. Establishes a basis of current knowledge on honeybees to build and advance understanding of their foraging behavior Addresses stressors such as habitat loss, climate change, pesticides, pests and diseases Presents concise concepts that facilitate direct traceability to the original underlying research
Author : Jürgen Tautz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 2022-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030994848
Jürgen Tautz, renowned German bee researcher explains how bees communicate. Exciting and surprising new insights on communication between bees. During the history of bee research, scientists have peered deep into the inner life of bee colonies and learned much about the behaviour of these insects. Above all, the bee waggle dance has become a famous and extensively discussed phenomenon. Nevertheless, recent insights reveal that while bees are social insects inside the hive they also communicate with one another outside the hive. In this book, Jürgen Tautz, renowned German bee researcher, provides an entertaining, fresh and enlightened account for lay and professional readers, not only about the fascinating dance language but also about additional remarkable phenomena concerning information exchange between bees. From the author of the bestseller “The Buzz about Bees”. “The Language of Bees” assembles, for the first time, a complete overview of how bees understand one another. Although communication biology research on bees has so far concentrated largely on events within the hive, this book directs attention as well, to how bees communicate in the field outside the hive. The reader learns which steps new bee recruits take to reach the feeder a dancing forager has advertised. The book analyses the status of work on the bee dance published over the last 100 years and orders the essential findings as building blocks into a coherent new concept of how bees find their target. In addition, the historical survey of research on the “Bee Language” explains how several contradictory and incomplete hypotheses can still survive. A fresh point of view on one of the most remarkable behavioural performances in the animal kingdom. Observation from a different viewpoint leads to previously unknown insights. Such new perspectives clearly reveal both how large the gaps in our knowledge still are in relation to the language of bees and in which direction research must take to complete the picture of one of the most impressive behavioural accomplishments in animals. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Tautz is an expert on bees, sociobiologist, animal behaviourist and emeritus professor at the Biozentrum, University of Würzburg. He is a bestseller author and recipient of many awards of excellence for his successful communication of science to a wide public.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Bee culture
ISBN :
Author : Tuan Thanh Tran Cao
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN :
In highly social insects, cooperative labor must be adjusted to changes in colony needs. Worker activity is regulated in part by complex systems of communication signals, and modulatory signals may play an important role in coordinating broad aspects of cooperative behavior with changes in colony state. I investigated the use of modulatory communication in the organization of colony labor by examining the responses of workers to the vibration signal in newly founded (NF) and established (EST) colonies of the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Compared to the EST colonies, the NF colonies showed consistent patterns of weight gain and tended to have greater brood production, less food storage, and a higher per capita rate of foraging. These differences in the allocation of resources and labor occurred in conjunction with pronounced differences in vibration signal activity, with the NF colonies consistently having higher per capita vibration rates than the EST colonies. In both colony types, the vibration signal elicited increased labor. Recipients performed a greater number of tasks and spent a greater proportion of their time engaged in tasks than did non-vibrated, same-age controls. However, there was no difference in the degree to which NF and EST recipients responded to the vibration signal. Thus, the increased vibration signal activity in the NF colonies may have influenced the organization of labor by activating larger proportions of unoccupied workers, rather than by increasing the work efforts of individual recipients.
Author : Claire Detrain
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3034887396
Claire Detrain, Jean-Louis Deneubourg and Jacques Pasteels Studies on insects have been pioneering in major fields of modern biology. In the 1970 s, research on pheromonal communication in insects gave birth to the dis cipline of chemical ecology and provided a scientific frame to extend this approach to other animal groups. In the 1980 s, the theory of kin selection, which was initially formulated by Hamilton to explain the rise of eusociality in insects, exploded into a field of research on its own and found applications in the under standing of community structures including vertebrate ones. In the same manner, recent studies, which decipher the collective behaviour of insect societies, might be now setting the stage for the elucidation of information processing in animals. Classically, problem solving is assumed to rely on the knowledge of a central unit which must take decisions and collect all pertinent information. However, an alternative method is extensively used in nature: problems can be collectively solved through the behaviour of individuals, which interact with each other and with the environment. The management of information, which is a major issue of animal behaviour, is interesting to study in a social life context, as it raises addi tional questions about conflict-cooperation trade-oft's. Insect societies have proven particularly open to experimental analysis: one can easily assemble or disassemble them and place them in controllable situations in the laboratory.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 1985-05
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN :
Author : Karl von Frisch
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Reprint of the revered Harvard UP original of 1967, itself a translation of the German original (Springer Verlag, 1965)--with a new foreword by Thos. D. Seeley. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
