Floral scents affect the distribution of hive bees around dancers

Díaz, Paula C.; Grüter, Christoph; Farina, Walter M.

doi:10.1007/s00265-007-0391-5

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“…This may not be surprising because pollen foragers usually perform waggle dances with pollen loads on their hind legs, whereas nectar foragers do not. Díaz et al (2007) reported differences in dance-following behavior depending on the presence or absence of pollen loads on dancers. It is also known that recruits tend to collect the same type of food as has been collected by dancers that they follow (Lindauer 1953).…”

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Honeybee foragers adjust crop contents before leaving the hive

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Mitsuhata-Asai

Konishi

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Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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Honeybee foragers adjust crop contents before leaving the hive

Harano

Mitsuhata-Asai

Konishi

et al. 2013

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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“…Yet efforts to quantify the value that this spatial communication system brings to a colony's foraging operation have generally failed to find clear net benefits, repeatedly concluding that rendering the dance's directional component meaningless only rarely compromises colony foraging efficiency [5][6][7][8][9] . Concurrent work has emphasised that even for undisrupted dances, the spatial information provided is often of secondary importance to the dance's role as a trigger of navigational memories in dance followers [10][11][12][13][14] , or to the olfactory information about profitable food sources that dancers provide through trophallactic nectar donations and scents carried on their bodies 10,[13][14][15][16][17][18] . Since dance communication is integral to nest-site selection in honeybees 19,20 , these findings have led to the suggestion that the role of dancing in foraging could in fact be a secondary one that is less critical than commonly supposed 21 .…”

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Network-based diffusion analysis reveals context-specific dominance of dance communication in foraging honeybees

2020

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The honeybee (Apis mellifera) dance communication system is a marvel of collective behaviour, but the added value it brings to colony foraging efficiency is poorly understood. In temperate environments, preventing communication of foraging locations rarely decreases colony food intake, potentially because simultaneous transmission of olfactory information also plays a major role in foraging. Here, we employ social network analyses that quantify information flow across multiple temporally varying networks (each representing a different interaction type) to evaluate the relative contributions of dance communication and hivebased olfactory information transfer to honeybee recruitment events. We show that virtually all successful recruits to novel locations rely upon dance information rather than olfactory cues that could otherwise guide them to the same resource. Conversely, during reactivation to known sites, dances are relatively less important, as foragers are primarily guided by olfactory information. By disentangling the contributions of multiple information networks, the contexts in which dance communication truly matters amid a complex system full of redundancy can now be identified.

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“…These results are an important first step towards understanding what appears to be an unusual spider-plant relationship. The adaptive significance of E. culicivora's association with L. camara and R. communis is still poorly understood, but there are many examples in the literature of insects that associate with particular plant species, especially insects that may specialise at feeding on plant products, such as nectar and pollen, from particular plants (Chittka et al 1999;Waser & ollerton 2006;Díaz et al 2007;Goulson et al 2007;brodmann et al 2008).…”

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Odour‐mediated response to plants byevarcha culicivora, a blood‐feeding jumping spider from East Africa

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Jackson

2009

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

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Evarcha culicivora Wesolowska & Jackson, a salticid from the Lake Victoria region of East Africa, is known to associate with Lantana camara L. (family Verbenaceae) and Ricinus communis L. (family Euphorbiaceae), two plant species that are common in the same habitat. E. culicivora is an unusual salticid because, by choosing blood-carrying mosquitoes as preferred prey, it feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood, and E. culicivora apparently also feeds on nectar taken from L. camara and R. communis. The experimental findings reported here show that the odour of these two plants is salient to E. culicivora. A Y-shaped olfactometer was used in the experiments, with plant odour on one side and the other side a control (no odour). Juveniles, adult males and adult females chose the odour of L. camara and R. communis more often than the control.

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Floral scents affect the distribution of hive bees around dancers

Cited by 38 publications

References 40 publications

Honeybee foragers adjust crop contents before leaving the hive

Honeybee foragers adjust crop contents before leaving the hive

Network-based diffusion analysis reveals context-specific dominance of dance communication in foraging honeybees

Odour‐mediated response to plants byevarcha culicivora, a blood‐feeding jumping spider from East Africa

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