IFIBYNE   05513
INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGIA, BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR Y NEUROCIENCIAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
Olfactory information transfer during recruitment in honeybees
Autor/es:
FARINA, WALTER M; GRÜTER, CHRISTOPH; ARENAS, ANDRÉS
Libro:
Honeybee neurobiology and behavior a tribute for Randolf Menzel
Editorial:
Springer
Referencias:
Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2011;
Resumen:
Honey bee colonies use a
number of signals and information cues to coordinate collective foraging. The best
known signal is the waggle dance by which dancers provide nest-mates with
information about the location of a foraging or nest site. The efficiency of
this nest-based recruitment strategy partly depends on olfactory information
about food sources that is transferred from dancer to receivers in parallel to
spatial information. Here we will address how the waggle dance facilitates the acquisition
and the retrieval of food odor information and how olfactory memory affects the
interaction patterns among nest-mates within the dancing and the food-unloading
context. We further discuss how olfactory information affects the food
preferences of foragers acquired directly from scented-food offered inside the
hive. The discussed results show that odor learning in this context is an
important component of the honey bee recruitment system that has long-term
consequences for foraging decisions.