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The honey bee's waggle dance constitutes a remarkable example of an efficient code allowing social exploitation of available feeding sites. In addition to indicating the position (distance, direction) of a food patch, both the occurrence and frequency of the dances depend on the profitability of the exploited resource (sugar concentration, solution flow rate). During the waggle dance, successful foragers generate pulsed thoracic vibrations that putatively serve as a source of different kinds of information for hive bees, who cannot visually decode dances in the darkness of the hive. In the present study, we asked whether these vibrations are a reliable estimator of the excitement of the dancer when food profitability changes in terms of both sugar concentration and solution flow rate. The probability of producing thoracic vibrations as well as several features related to their intensity during the waggle phase (pulse duration, velocity amplitude, duty cycle) increased with both these profitability variables. The number of vibratory pulses, however, was independent of sugar concentration and reward rate exploited. Thus, pulse number could indeed be used by dance followers as reliable information about food source distance, as suggested in previous studies. The variability of the dancer's thoracic vibrations in relation to changes in food profitability suggests their role as an indicator of the recruiter's motivational state. Hence, the vibrations could make an important contribution to forager reactivation and, consequently, to the organisation of collective foraging processes in honey bees. © 2011. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.

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Título:The recruiter's excitement - Features of thoracic vibrations during the honey bee's waggle dance related to food source profitability
Autor:Hrncir, M.; Maia-Silva, C.; McCabe, S.I.; Farina, W.M.
Filiación:Departamento de Ciências Animais, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido, CEP: 59625-900, Mossoró-RN, Brazil
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, CEP: 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brazil
Grupo de Estudio de Insectos Sociales, IFIBYNE-CONICET, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Universidad de Buenos Aires, C1428EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:Apis mellifera; Communication; Honey bees; Laser vibrometry; Profitability; Thoracic vibrations; Waggle dance; carbohydrate; animal; animal communication; article; bee; flow kinetics; food; honey; physiology; solution and solubility; thorax; vibration; Animal Communication; Animals; Bees; Carbohydrates; Food; Honey; Rheology; Solutions; Thorax; Vibration; Apis mellifera; Apoidea
Año:2011
Volumen:214
Número:23
Página de inicio:4055
Página de fin:4064
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.063149
Título revista:Journal of Experimental Biology
Título revista abreviado:J. Exp. Biol.
ISSN:00220949
CODEN:JEBIA
CAS:Carbohydrates; Solutions
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00220949_v214_n23_p4055_Hrncir

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Hrncir, M., Maia-Silva, C., McCabe, S.I. & Farina, W.M. (2011) . The recruiter's excitement - Features of thoracic vibrations during the honey bee's waggle dance related to food source profitability. Journal of Experimental Biology, 214(23), 4055-4064.
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Hrncir, M., Maia-Silva, C., McCabe, S.I., Farina, W.M. "The recruiter's excitement - Features of thoracic vibrations during the honey bee's waggle dance related to food source profitability" . Journal of Experimental Biology 214, no. 23 (2011) : 4055-4064.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.063149
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Hrncir, M., Maia-Silva, C., McCabe, S.I., Farina, W.M. "The recruiter's excitement - Features of thoracic vibrations during the honey bee's waggle dance related to food source profitability" . Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 214, no. 23, 2011, pp. 4055-4064.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.063149
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Hrncir, M., Maia-Silva, C., McCabe, S.I., Farina, W.M. The recruiter's excitement - Features of thoracic vibrations during the honey bee's waggle dance related to food source profitability. J. Exp. Biol. 2011;214(23):4055-4064.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.063149