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