Does the Earth's magnetic field serve as a reference for alignment of the honeybee Waggle dance?

The honeybee (Apis mellifera) waggle dance, which is performed inside the hive by forager bees, informs hive mates about a potent food source, and recruits them to its location. It consists of a repeated figure-8 pattern: two oppositely directed turns interspersed by a short straight segment, the &q...

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Main Authors: Veronika Lambinet, Michael E Hayden, Marco Bieri, Gerhard Gries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4277305?pdf=render