Assessment of Appetitive Behavior in Honey Bee Dance Followers.

ABSTRACT: Honey bees transfer different informational components of the discovered feeding source to their nestmates during the waggle dance. To decode the multicomponent information of this complex behavior, dance followers have to attend to the most relevant signal elements while filtering out less relevant ones. To achieve that, dance followers should present improved abilities to acquire information compared with those bees not engaged in this behavior. Through proboscis extension response assays, sensory and cognitive abilities were tested in follower and non-follower bees. Individuals were captured within the hive, immediately after following waggle runs or a bit further from the dancer. Both behavioral categories present low and similar spontaneous odor responses (SORs). However, followers ex

SUBMITTER: Moauro MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5934941 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature