Round dance (honey bee)

Round dance is a term used in bee keeping, entomology and communication of social insects. It describes a specific communicative behavior of honey bees inside the bee hive. When a forager, or scout bee, returns to the hive she performs a round dance to communicate the location of food sources close to the colony (less than 35 yards away).^[1] The bee moves in a circular pattern.

The waggle dance is used for communicating more distant nectar sources or pollen sources. The bee moves in a figure 8.

References

↑ "NOVA Online – Tales from the Hive – The Round Dance". NOVA. 1999. Retrieved 2008-12-21.

Neuroethology

Concepts	Feedforward Coincidence detector Umwelt Instinct Feature detection Central pattern generator (CPG) NMDA receptor Lateral inhibition Fixed action pattern Krogh's Principle Hebbian theory Anti-Hebbian learning Sound localization Ultrasound avoidance in insects

People	Theodore Holmes Bullock Walter Heiligenberg Niko Tinbergen Konrad Lorenz Donald Griffin Donald Kennedy Karl von Frisch Erich von Holst Jörg-Peter Ewert Franz Huber Bernhard Hassenstein Werner E. Reichardt Eric Knudsen Eric Kandel Nobuo Suga Masakazu Konishi Fernando Nottebohm

Methods	Patch clamp Slice preparation

Systems	Animal echolocation Waggle dance Jamming avoidance response Vision in toads Frog hearing and communication Infrared sensing in snakes Caridoid escape reaction Vocal learning Surface wave detection Electroreception Mechanoreception

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