Floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment

MS Balbuena, A Arenas, WM Farina - Animal Behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
Floral scents learned during the waggle dance, a signal through which honeybees provide
nestmates with spatial information on foraging sites, are an important component of …

Floral scents affect the distribution of hive bees around dancers

PC Díaz, C Grüter, WM Farina - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2007 - Springer
Floral scents are important information cues used to organize foraging-related tasks in
honeybees. The waggle dance, apart from encoding spatial information about food sources …

Floral scents experienced within the colony affect long-term foraging preferences in honeybees

A Arenas, VM Fernández, WM Farina - Apidologie, 2008 - apidologie.org
Food scents circulating inside beehives influence foraging preferences in the field. However,
the persistence and nature of the prior experience that lead to this biased response remain …

Olfactory information transfer during recruitment in honey bees

WM Farina, C Grüter, A Arenas - … neurobiology and behavior: a tribute to …, 2012 - Springer
Honey bee colonies use a number of signals and information cues to coordinate collective
foraging. The best known signal is the waggle dance by which dancers provide nest-mates …

Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions

MS Balbuena, J Molinas, WM Farina - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Information exchange of environmental cues facilitates decision-making processes
among members of insect societies. In honeybee foraging, it is unknown how the odor cues …

Honey bee waggle dance communication: signal meaning and signal noise affect dance follower behaviour

H Al Toufailia, MJ Couvillon, FLW Ratnieks… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2013 - Springer
Returning honey bee foragers perform waggle dances to inform nestmate foragers about the
presence, location and odour of profitable food sources and new nest sites. The aim of this …

Do honey bees modulate dance following according to foraging distance?

MJ Hasenjager, W Hoppitt, E Leadbeater - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Honey bee waggle dances indicate the direction of and distance to food
sources.•Whether dance follower responses account for the indicated distance is …

Social learning of floral odours inside the honeybee hive

WM Farina, C Grüter, PC Díaz - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A honeybee hive serves as an information centre in which communication among bees
allows the colony to exploit the most profitable resources in a continuously changing …

Dancing for their supper: Do honeybees adjust their recruitment dance in response to the protein content of pollen?

M Beekman, K Preece, TM Schaerf - Insectes Sociaux, 2016 - Springer
Honeybees use the dance language to communicate the location of profitable food
resources to nestmates. During nectar foraging, bees alter the duration of the return phase of …

Retention of long-term memories in different age groups of honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers

C Grüter, MS Balbuena, WM Farina - Insectes sociaux, 2009 - Springer
Honeybees can learn food odors inside the nest during food sharing and use this
information during flower choice, dance choice or choice of a trophallactic partner. We …