Dance floor clustering: food-anticipatory behavior in persistent and reticent honey bee foragers

Nest, Byron N. Van; Wagner, Ashley E.; Hobbs, Caddy N.; Moore, Darrell

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“…Another question remains as well: when an exploited food source ceases to be productive, how readily will a forager that was exploiting it be recruited to a new food source? Based on our prior experiments (Van Nest et al, 2016;Wagner et al, 2013), it is clear that the time-memory for the first source does not need to extinguish prior to a forager becoming employed at a new source as was previously thought (Moore et al, 1989;Moore, 2001;Saunders, 2002;Seeley and Towne, 1992). In the present study, we further explored the ability of honey bee foragers to schedule their foraging efforts to multiple food sources.…”

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“…Second, there should be a decline in salience (and therefore an increase in recruitment to the new source) with the passage of time. In support of the plausibility of hypothesis 3 is the observation that the rate at which a forager ceases making reconnaissance flights to a previously productive food source is influenced by the amount of experience the forager gained at that source Van Nest et al, 2016). The results of these experiments have major implications for understanding how honey bees manage their foraging behaviors with respect to alternative food sources in the environment as well as the mechanisms by which time memories are maintained and executed by the underlying circadian clock system.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Four trials were performed using colonies headed by genetically unrelated queens (Table 1). In each trial, two different groups of foragers were trained from the same hive to two different feeders (the training station and the recruitment station) using standard training methods (Moore and Rankin, 1983;Moore and Doherty, 2009;Moore et al, 2011;Van Nest et al, 2016;von Frisch, 1967;Wagner et al, 2013). Briefly, this entailed luring bees at the hive entrance to a feeder filled with 2 mol l −1 sucrose placed immediately in front of the hive.…”

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“…All visits made by individually marked bees were recorded from 4 h prior to the onset of the training time to 4 h past the end of the training time at both stations on all 4 test days. Because experienced foragers gather on the hive's dance floor in anticipation of their appropriate training time (Moore et al, 1989;Van Nest et al, 2016), foragers from the training station were positioned favorably for encounters with recruitment waggle dances performed by foragers from the recruitment station. Trials 1, 2 and 4 were performed on observation hives (Table 1) with colonies of approximately 6000-8000 bees.…”

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High experience levels delay recruitment but promote simultaneous time-memories in honey bee foragers

Nest

Otto

Moore

2018

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) foragers can remember both the location and time of day food is collected and, even in the absence of a reward, reconnoiter the food source at the appropriate time on subsequent days. This spatiotemporal memory (time-memory) is linked to the circadian clock and enables foragers to synchronize their behavior with floral nectar secretion rhythms, thus eliminating the need to rediscover productive food sources each day. Here, we asked whether the establishment of one time-memory influences the formation of another time-memory at the same time of day. In other words, can two time-place memories with the same 'time-stamp' coexist? We simultaneously trained two groups of foragers from a single hive to two separate feeders at the same restricted time of day. After 5 days of training, one feeder was shut off. The second feeder continued being productive 4 more days. Our results showed that (1) foragers with high experience levels at the first source were significantly more likely than low-experience foragers to maintain fidelity to their original source and resist recruitment to the alternative source, (2) nearly one-third of foragers demonstrated multiple, overlapping time-memories by visiting both feeders at the correct time and (3) significantly more high-experience than low-experience foragers exhibited this multitasking behavior. The ability to maintain and act upon two different, yet contemporaneous, time-memories gives the forager bee a previously unknown level of versatility in attending to multiple food sources. These findings have major implications for understanding the formation and management of circadian spatiotemporal memories.

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High experience levels delay recruitment but promote simultaneous time-memories in honey bee foragers

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Otto

Moore

2018

Journal of Experimental Biology

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“…It is important to note that honey bee foragers do not feed but only collect the food and deliver it to the colony food stores. Previous experiments on restricted foraging in honey bees have demonstrated that foragers show food anticipatory behavior [15–17]. The accuracy of anticipation varies with time of the day; afternoon trained foragers are less accurate than morning trained foragers [15].…”

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Time-restricted foraging under natural light/dark condition shifts the molecular clock in the honey bee,Apis mellifera

Jain

Brockmann

2018

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25Honey bees have a remarkable sense of time and individual honey bee foragers are capable to 26 adjust their foraging activity with respect to the time of food availability. Although, there is 27 plenty of experimental evidence that foraging behavior is guided by the circadian clock, 28nothing is known about the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms. Here we present a 29 first study exploring whether the time-restricted foraging under natural light-dark condition 30 affects the molecular clock in honey bees. In an enclosed flight chamber (12m x 4m x 4m), 31 food was presented either for 2 hours in the morning or 2 hours in the afternoon for several 32 consecutive days and daily cycling of the two major clock genes, cryptochrome2 (cry2) and 33 period (per), were analyzed in three different tissues involved in feeding-related behaviors: 34 brain, antennae and subesophageal ganglion (SEG). We found that morning and afternoon 35 trained foragers showed significant phase-differences in the cycling of both clock genes in all 36 three tissues. Furthermore, the phase-differences were more pronounced when the feeder was

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Ingeborg Beling and the time memory in honeybees: almost one hundred years of research

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Zupanc,

Helfrich-Förster

2024

J Comp Physiol A

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Bees are known for their ability to forage with high efficiency. One of their strategies to avoid unproductive foraging is to be at the food source at the right time of the day. Approximately one hundred years ago, researchers discovered that honeybees have a remarkable time memory, which they use for optimizing foraging. Ingeborg Beling was the first to examine this time memory experimentally. In her doctoral thesis, completed under the mentorship of Karl von Frisch in 1929, she systematically examined the capability of honeybees to remember specific times of the day at which they had been trained to appear at a feeding station. Beling was a pioneer in chronobiology, as she described the basic characteristics of the circadian clock on which the honeybee's time memory is based. Unfortunately, after a few years of extremely productive research, she ended her scientific career, probably due to family reasons or political pressure to reduce the number of women in the workforce. Here, we present a biographical sketch of Ingeborg Beling and review her research on the time memory of honeybees. Furthermore, we discuss the significance of her work, considering what is known about time memory today — nearly 100 years after she conducted her experiments.

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Dance floor clustering: food-anticipatory behavior in persistent and reticent honey bee foragers

Cited by 8 publications

References 47 publications

High experience levels delay recruitment but promote simultaneous time-memories in honey bee foragers

High experience levels delay recruitment but promote simultaneous time-memories in honey bee foragers

Time-restricted foraging under natural light/dark condition shifts the molecular clock in the honey bee,Apis mellifera

Ingeborg Beling and the time memory in honeybees: almost one hundred years of research

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