Sound production during the waggle dance of the honey bee

Wenner, Adrian M.

doi:10.1016/0003-3472(62)90135-5

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“…Esch (1964) observed bees attending waggle dances and noted that they occasionally emitted squeaking sounds, after which they sometimes received food samples from the dancer. Wenner (1962) reported that disturbed bees emit short bursts of sound, similar to the stop signal. von Frisch (1967) also observed it in use by bees interacting with waggle dancers, and agreed with an interpretation by Esch (1964) that it was a begging call for food.…”

Section: Early Work On the Stop Signalmentioning

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The anti-waggle dance: use of the stop signal as negative feedback

Kietzman

Visscher

2015

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Numerous activities within honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies rely on feedback loops for organization at the group level. Classic examples of these self-organizing behaviors occur during foraging and swarm nest site selection. The waggle dance provides positive feedback, promoting foraging at a specific location or increased scouting at a potential nest site. Rather less well known than the waggle dance is the stop signal, a short vibration often delivered while butting against a dancing bee. It is currently best understood as a counter to the waggle dance, offering negative feedback toward the advertised foraging location or nest site. When the stop signal is received by a waggle dancer she is more likely to terminate her dance early and retire from the dance floor. Bees that experienced danger or overcrowding at a food source are more likely to perform the stop signal upon their return to the colony, resulting in an inhibition of foraging at that location. During a swarm's nest site selection process, scout bees that visited a different site than the one being advertised are more likely to stop-signal the waggle dancer than are scouts that had visited the same site. Over time, the scout bees build recruitment to a single site until a quorum is reached and the swarm can move to it. The balance between the positive feedback from the waggle dance and the negative feedback from the stop signal allows for a more sensitive adjustment of response from the colony as a unit. Many of the processes associated with the feedback loops organizing a honey bee colony's activities are in striking parallel to other systems, such as intercellular interactions involved in motor neuron function.

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Section: Early Work On the Stop Signalmentioning

confidence: 98%

The anti-waggle dance: use of the stop signal as negative feedback

Kietzman

Visscher

2015

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…We trained five bees to a feeder 260 m from the hive, past the center trap in the array, following standard techniques (von Frisch, 1967;Wenner, 1962). This group of bees danced during the experiment, communicating the direction of the center of the array to potential recruits.…”

Section: Training To Feedermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1). The distance of a resource is communicated in the duration of the waggle phase, which correlates to its distance from the hive (Wenner, 1962, reviewed by von Frisch, 1967. While the mechanics of the dance and its varied dialects are well understood, little is known about what behaviors dance followers perform to facilitate the transfer of information.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Does the body orientation of waggle dance followers affect the accuracy of recruitment?

Tanner

Visscher

2008

Apidologie

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-The honey bee waggle dance is a cascade of behaviors used to advertise the availability of a resource, and communicate its location. Little is known, however, about the behaviors of dance follower bees that allow them to extract information from the dance. We test competing hypotheses that suggest that either follower bees must be located behind a dancer bee or to the side of a dancer bee to be able to extract information from the dance. We also test if behaviors relating to the time that a follower bee spends following a dance are important in collecting dance information. We find that the bees are equally efficient finding a resource indicated by the dance after following a dance from the side or behind a dancer bee. We also find that the number of waggle runs followed has a significant effect on the accuracy of a foraging flight.honey bee / Apis mellifera / waggle dance / dance follower behavior

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“…The dances contain vibrating "steps" at various frequencies, mostly clustered from 15 to 20 Hz [549] or from 200 to 300 Hz. [550][551][552][553] The open cells of a honeycomb resonate around 20 or 250 Hz, thereby amplifying vibrations at these frequencies and turning the honeycomb into a mechanism for wide signal broadcasting. [554] Bees that dance on empty, uncapped cells are able to recruit around twice as many bees than those that dance on capped brood cells; [555] these followers are also recruited from a greater distance.…”

Section: Communication In Large-scale Nestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects

2018

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Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives, locomotor systems, hydrophobic surfaces, and sensors and actuators that transduce mechanical, acoustic, optical, thermal, and chemical signals. Insect‐inspired designs currently appear in a range of contexts, including antireflective coatings, optical displays, and computing algorithms. However, as over one million distinct and highly specialized species of insects have colonized nearly all habitable regions on the planet, they still provide a largely untapped pool of unique problem‐solving strategies. With the intent of providing materials scientists and engineers with a muse for the next generation of bioinspired materials, here, a selection of some of the most spectacular adaptations that insects have evolved is assembled and organized by function. The insects presented display dazzling optical properties as a result of natural photonic crystals, precise hierarchical patterns that span length scales from nanometers to millimeters, and formidable defense mechanisms that deploy an arsenal of chemical weaponry. Successful mimicry of these adaptations may facilitate technological solutions to as wide a range of problems as they solve in the insects that originated them.

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Sound production during the waggle dance of the honey bee

Cited by 144 publications

References 17 publications

The anti-waggle dance: use of the stop signal as negative feedback

The anti-waggle dance: use of the stop signal as negative feedback

Does the body orientation of waggle dance followers affect the accuracy of recruitment?

It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects

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