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Hobbyist beekeeper, here. One of the most fascinating things about bee communication (IMHO) is not necessarily the two distinct types of dances they do, or not
by yawz 10y ago
Hobbyist beekeeper, here. One of the most fascinating things about bee communication (IMHO) is not necessarily the two distinct types of dances they do, or not the precision on the distance and the direction of the target, but doing all that in the pitch darkness of their hive.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoThat got me interested and lead me to this but of Wikipedia which claims they perceive the dance by detecting vibrations and electric field changes: Dancing honeybees (Apis mellifera) describe the location of nearby food sources by emitted airborne sound signals. These signals consist of rhythmic high-velocity movement of air particles. These near field sounds are received and interpreted using the Johnston’s organ in the pedicel of the antennae.[10] Honeybees also perceive electric field changes via the Johnston's organs in their antennae and possibly other mechano-receptors. Electric fields generated by movements of the wings cause displacements of the antennae based on Coulomb’s law. Neurons of the Johnston’s organ respond to movements within the range of displacements caused by electric fields. When the antennae were prevented from moving at the joints containing the Johnston’s organ, bees no longer responded to biologically relevant electric fields. Honeybees respond differently to different temporal patterns. Honeybees appear to use the electric field emanating from the dancing bee for distance communication. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston%27s_organ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston%27s_organ
- Typhon 10y agoIt is fascinating indeed.