#waggledance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #waggledance, aggregated by home.social.
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"The Scent of the Waggle Dance", Thom et al. 2007
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0050228"waggle-dancing bees produce and release two alkanes, tricosane and pentacosane, and two alkenes, Z-(9)-tricosene and Z-(9)-pentacosene, onto their abdomens and into the air. [...] these compounds are semiochemicals involved in worker recruitment."
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For Twitter, here's a possible tweet:
"Did you know honeybees communicate through 'Waggle Dance'? 🐝💃 Tiny creatures, big impact! 🌟
https://factovate.com/how-do-honeybees-communicate-by-dancing
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"Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance"
Hadjitofi & Webb 2024
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00220-3?uuid=uuid%3A829297f7-992a-43b3-b614-be0e1dcc1701I'm still gobsmacked about this. All my life thinking the honeybee waggle dance was decoded visually, and no, it's by mechanoreception in pitch dark inside the beehive. Our own biases permeate and show through everything.
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The past few weeks have been a blur with the end of classes for the year, but also the publishing of 2 new #HoneyBee #WaggleDance manuscripts from two former PhD students. These papers show the usefulness of waggle dance decoding both as an applied instrument as well as a tool for exciting basic research. Thread 1/n
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@futurebird Bees can read each other by touch: the waggle dance happens in pitch darkness inside the hive, with other bees reading out the dancer's moves with their antennae:
"Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance"
Anna Hadjitofi and Barbara Webb, 2024
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00220-3?uuid=uuid%3A829297f7-992a-43b3-b614-be0e1dcc1701Surely ants can too.
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From Thomas Seeley's "Honeybee democracy" https://archive.org/details/honeybeedemocrac0000seel (can be borrowed for free online at the @scholar ) with stories about his lab and early PhD work studying how bee scouts communicate and a swarm decides to move to a new home, including summaries from earlier, pioneering work by Martin Lindauer, to now Anna Hadjitofi and Barbara Webb https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224002203 figuring out how a worker bee reads out the waggle dance from scouts and foragers. Quite the journey.
Nice write up by Shaena Montanari at @thetransmitter https://www.thetransmitter.org/neuroethology/dancing-in-the-dark-honeybees-use-antennae-to-decode-nestmates-waggles/
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Decoding honeybees’ waggle dance:
“Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance”, by Anna Hadjitofi and Barbara Webb 2024.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00220-3Couldn’t be any other way: the bees’ nest is pitch dark!
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Hive inspections, receiver bees and the complexity and inherent errors of the waggle dance. Lots to think about as the nectar flow (finally) starts.
https://theapiarist.org/dancing-in-the-dark/
#beekeeping #waggledance #localhoney #Science -
Today, our (@freelyflyingbee@Twitter and mine) first PhD student Brad Ohlinger successfully defended his thesis. He worked on costs and gains in honey bee foraging, and how to use the waggle dance to study these. He has won multiple awards for his talks, so it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. We will miss him sorely, but we are also looking forward to read about his new adventures.
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I knew of #bee #waggledance before, but not that it was being decoded.
Scientists Have Figured Out How Honeybees Learn Their Waggle Dance Moves : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-figured-out-how-honeybees-learn-their-waggle-dance-moves
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A good first day of #AireCon starting with getting here safely on a snowy day!
We got to play #Everdell at last which we loved, it seemed very slow at first but quickly accelerated. The teen had all the resources coming in but I got the most points 😃 Definitely one we want to play again.
Other hits were #InTheFootstepsOfDarwin and #WaggleDance.
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Honeybees are far from being mere robots. Their waggle dance requires social learning. Complex behaviours are seldom entirely innate.
#Science #Biology #AnimalBehaviour #communication #foraging #SocialLearning #cognition #ontogeny #WaggleDance #Honeybee
📄 Dong et al (2023) Social signal learning of the waggle dance in honey bees. Science 379:1015–1018 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade1702
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Current Science cover: Young #bees learn the #waggledance from experienced "hivemates".
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Medford Tufts is bee-themed #scicomm. Like to see #WaggleDance descriptions. Also liked the nearby caterpillar unofficial graffiti.
We sat on this train for a long time before it left. But it was warm, and not too full--maybe 70% of seats in use as we left.
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Gibt es eigentlich noch mehr, die sich über die aktuellen Preise rund um #brettspiele wundern? Ich meine, 4 Tage #Spiel 22 für nur 70,- fand ich ja schon atemberaubend. Aber was da dann teilweise für relative normale Spiele verlangt wurde, ist für mich - trotz Inflation und Energiekrise - nicht mehr nachvollziehbar.
Beispielsweise #WaggleDance (Kartenspiel mit Würfeln) 40,-, #OldLondonBridge 50,- und jetzt #SleepingGods 150,- -
Gibt es eigentlich noch mehr, die sich über die aktuellen Preise rund um #brettspiele wundern? Ich meine, 4 Tage #Spiel 22 für nur 70,- fand ich ja schon atemberaubend. Aber was da dann teilweise für relative normale Spiele verlangt wurde, ist für mich - trotz Inflation und Energiekrise - nicht mehr nachvollziehbar.
Beispielsweise #WaggleDance (Kartenspiel mit Würfeln) 40,-, #OldLondonBridge 50,- und jetzt #SleepingGods 150,- -
Gibt es eigentlich noch mehr, die sich über die aktuellen Preise rund um #brettspiele wundern? Ich meine, 4 Tage #Spiel 22 für nur 70,- fand ich ja schon atemberaubend. Aber was da dann teilweise für relative normale Spiele verlangt wurde, ist für mich - trotz Inflation und Energiekrise - nicht mehr nachvollziehbar.
Beispielsweise #WaggleDance (Kartenspiel mit Würfeln) 40,-, #OldLondonBridge 50,- und jetzt #SleepingGods 150,-