Dance communication affects consistency, but not breadth, of resource use in pollen-foraging honey bees.

In groups of cooperatively foraging individuals, communication may improve the group's performance by directing foraging effort to where it is most useful. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) use a specialized dance to communicate the location of floral resources. Because honey bees dance longer for mo...

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Main Authors: Matina Donaldson-Matasci, Anna Dornhaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4182680?pdf=render