Dancing bees improve colony foraging success as long-term benefits outweigh short-term costs.

Waggle dancing bees provide nestmates with spatial information about high quality resources. Surprisingly, attempts to quantify the benefits of this encoded spatial information have failed to find positive effects on colony foraging success under many ecological circumstances. Experimental designs h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Roger Schürch, Christoph Grüter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4139316?pdf=render