Honey bee "dance floors" can be accurately located with a new method, mapping where in the hive forager bees perform waggle dances to signal the location of pollen and nectar for their nestmates
Article URL : https://plos.io/4cajUnB
Article title: Quantifying the honey bee dance floor: A data-driven method for defining and comparing waggle dance regions
Author countries: Canada, U.S.
Funding: This research was funded by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant ( https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/index_eng.asp) to BNVN (RGPIN-2020-05690) and by a U.S. National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences Grant ( https://www.nsf.gov/mps/dms) to MLJ, ES, and DM (NSF 1128954). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no additional external funding received for this study.
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Quantifying the honey bee dance floor: A data-driven method for defining and comparing waggle dance regions
18-Feb-2026
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.