Journal article
Honeybees consider flower danger in their waggle dance
Abstract
Like most animals, honeybees, Apis mellifera, possess a suite of antipredatory adaptations used to defend their colony against intruders and to avoid flowers associated with predation risk. Honeybees also possess a remarkable ability to communicate the direction, distance and relative profitability of flower patches to hivemates using the well-studied waggle dance. Here we show that honeybees returning from foraging on dangerous flowers are …
Authors
Abbott KR; Dukas R
Journal
Animal Behaviour, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 633–635
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
September 2009
DOI
10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.05.029
ISSN
0003-3472