The dance legacy of Karl von Frisch

Couvillon, Margaret J.

doi:10.1007/s00040-012-0224-z

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“…Honey bees, Apis mellifera, present an ideal opportunity in foraging studies because it is the only animal that directly communicates where it has collected food with the waggle dance (von Frisch 1967;Couvillon 2012). A successful forager, upon returning to the hive, performs a stereotyped behaviour where the bee moves linearly on the comb while waggling her body from side to side.…”

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“…Dances are made to communicate sites where resources (e.g., nectar, pollen, water) can be collected, and during swarming, to communicate potential new nest sites (Lindauer 1955;Seeley and Buhrman 1999). The waggle runs, which form part of the waggle dance, encode a vector from the hive to the location where the forager has gathered food (von Frisch 1946(von Frisch , 1967 and can be decoded by researchers (Visscher and Seeley 1982;Waddington et al 1994;Beekman and Ratnieks 2000;Steffan-Dewenter and Kuhn 2003;Couvillon 2012;Couvillon et al 2014b).…”

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Honey bee foraging distance depends on month and forage type

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-To investigate the distances at which honey bee foragers collect nectar and pollen, we analysed 5,484 decoded waggle dances made to natural forage sites to determine monthly foraging distance for each forage type. Firstly, we found significantly fewer overall dances made for pollen (16.8 %) than for non-pollen, presumably nectar (83.2 %; P <2.2×10−23 ). When we analysed distance against month and forage type, there was a significant interaction between the two factors, which demonstrates that in some months, one forage type is collected at farther distances, but this would reverse in other months. Overall, these data suggest that distance, as a proxy for forage availability, is not significantly and consistently driven by need for one type of forage over the other.forage availability / waggle dance / Apis mellifera / nectar / pollen

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Honey bee foraging distance depends on month and forage type

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“…Sometimes the nature of the signal is such that the function of the variation is clear, for example by providing a means of individual recognition in territorial interactions (Bee et al, 2001;Maynard-Smith and Harper, 2003;Antunes et al, 2011). However, variation also exists in communication signals that one would expect to be optimized for accuracy and possess little variation, for example the honey bee (Apis mellifera) waggle dance, where foragers communicate to nestmates the direction and distance from the colony to a profitable resource, usually nectar or pollen (von Frisch, 1967;Couvillon, 2012).…”

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“…Waggle dances are known to possess both intra-dance (within dance, between successive waggle runs) variation in both the distance and direction components (De Marco et al, 2008;Tanner and Visscher, 2010;Couvillon, 2012;Couvillon et al, 2012b;Preece and Beekman, 2014) and inter-dance (between dances) variation in the direction component (von Frisch and Lindauer, 1961;von Frisch, 1967;Schürch and Couvillon, 2013). However, less is known about interdance variation in the duration component (see descriptions of the phenomenon in Boch, 1957;Schweiger, 1958;von Frisch, 1967).…”

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Dancing to her own beat: honey bee foragers communicate via individually calibrated waggle dances

Schürch

Ratnieks

Samuelson

et al. 2016

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Communication signals often vary between individuals, even when one expects selection to favour accuracy and precision, such as the honey bee waggle dance, where foragers communicate to nestmates the direction and distance to a resource. Although many studies have examined intra-dance variation, or the variation within a dance, less is known about inter-dance variation, or the variation between dances. This is particularly true for distance communication. Here, we trained individually marked bees from three colonies to forage at feeders of known distances and monitored their dances to determine individual communication variation. We found that each honey bee possesses her own calibration: individual duration-distance calibrations varied significantly in both slopes and intercepts. The variation may incur a cost for communication, such that a dancer and recruit may misunderstand the communicated distance by as much as 50%. Future work is needed to understand better the mechanisms and consequences of individual variation in communication.

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“…In addition, social bees like the honeybee may also be able to recruit nestmates. Honeybees use the waggle dance to direct nestmates to rewarding food sources (Couvillon, 2012;von Frisch, 1946). Other bee species may use the flower scents and signals to alert nestmates to the presence of food, and some also use pheromones to guide nestmates to specific locations (Dornhaus & Chittka, 1999;Dornhaus & Chittka, 2001).…”

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Determining the foraging potential of oilseed rape to honey bees using aerial surveys and simulations

Schürch

Couvillon

Ratnieks

2015

Journal of Apicultural Research

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The modern agricultural landscape is characterised by large areas of monoculture, including fields of mass-flowering crops. These may benefit bees by providing abundant forage, but may cause harm if the fields are treated with insecticides. Here, we investigated the potential exposure of honeybee colonies to pesticides in flowering oilseed rape (OSR) in England using a combination of aerial photographs and geographical modelling. Aerial photographs were used to detect and map fields of blooming OSR in eight 20 Â 20 kilometers 2 areas across England where OSR is grown. We determined the distance to the nearest OSR field for randomly chosen positions (i.e., potential hive locations) using a digital map made of each area. The proportion of colonies within foraging range to the nearest OSR field in each area was then calculated using published data on honeybee foraging distances obtained by waggle dance decoding. We found that the distribution of distances to the nearest OSR field varied greatly among study areas, ranging from almost all colonies being within range to almost all being out of range (6-79% were within median foraging distance). In one study area, we examined changes over a 4-year period and found little year-to-year variation due to crop rotation (23-36% within median foraging distance). Our specific results show that exposure in England to OSR and to any chemicals used in treatment varies greatly among areas. Overall, our methodology provides a novel way of quantifying the exposure of bee colonies or other central place foragers to a particular crop or land-type at a landscape level.Determinació n del potencial de pecoreo de la colza para las abejas melíferas mediante reconocimientos aé reos y simulaciones El paisaje agrícola moderno se caracteriza por extensas áreas de monocultivo, incluyendo campos de cultivos de floració n masiva. Éstos pueden beneficiar a las abejas al proporcionar alimento abundante, pero pueden causar daño si los campos son tratados con insecticidas. Aquí se investigó la posible exposició n de las colonias de abejas de miel a la floració n de la colza (OSR por sus siglas en inglés) en Inglaterra mediante el uso de una combinació n de fotografías aéreas y de modelado geográfico. Se usaron fotografías aéreas para detectar y mapear campos de OSR en ocho áreas de 20 x 20 km a lo largo de Inglaterra donde se cultiva la colza. Se determinó la distancia al campo de OSR más cercano desde posiciones escogidas aleatoriamente (es decir, localizaciones potenciales de colmenas) utilizado un mapa digital hecho para cada área. La proporció n de colonias dentro del rango de pecoreo del campo de colza más cercano se calculó entonces a partir de los datos publicados sobre las distancias de pecoreo de las abejas melíferas, obtenidas mediante la decodificació n de la danza de las abejas. Encontramos que la distribució n de distancias al campo de colza más cercano varió mucho entre las áreas de estudio, oscilando desde casi todas las colonias dentro del rango, a casi todas fuera del rango (6% -79% ...

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The dance legacy of Karl von Frisch

Cited by 69 publications

References 126 publications

Honey bee foraging distance depends on month and forage type

Honey bee foraging distance depends on month and forage type

Dancing to her own beat: honey bee foragers communicate via individually calibrated waggle dances

Determining the foraging potential of oilseed rape to honey bees using aerial surveys and simulations

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