The stop signal of honey bees: reconsidering its message
The stop signal of honey bees: reconsidering its message
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DOI：
10.1007/bf00164346
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发表时间：
1993-07
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
J. Nieh
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作者：
J. Nieh
长期以来，蜜蜂的停止信号一直被认为是舞蹈追随者发出的振动乞求信号，目的是从摇摆舞者那里获取食物（Esch 1964）。在回放实验和行为分析的基础上，本研究为不同的信号功能提供了以下证据。停止信号（1）可以由颤抖舞者、舞蹈跟随者和摇摆舞者发出； (2) 很少引起输卵管轴； (3) 明显导致摇摆舞者离开舞池。基什内尔（Kirchner）随后使用振动回放实验进行的工作证实了后一种观察结果。当蜂群的食物储存器暂时被大量花蜜涌入所淹没时，返回的觅食者会在卸载食物之前进行长时间的搜索，从而开始颤抖舞蹈（Seeley 1992）。在这项研究中，颤抖的舞者是舞池上停止信号的主要产生者。因此，停止信号可能会延迟招募，直到恢复平衡。
The stop signal of honey bees has long been regarded as a vibrational begging signal produced by dance followers to elicit food from waggle dancers (Esch 1964). On the basis of playback experiments and behavioral analysis, this study presents the following evidence for a different signal function. Stop signals (1) can be produced by tremble dancers, dance followers, and waggle dancers; (2) rarely elicit trophallaxis; and (3) evidently cause waggle dancers to leave the dance floor. Subsequent work by Kirchner (submitted) using vibrational playback experiments confirms the latter observation. When the colony's food storers are temporarily overwhelmed by a large nectar influx, returning foragers will search for prolonged periods before unloading food and consequently begin to tremble dance (Seeley 1992). In this study, tremble dancers were the major producer of stop signals on the dance floor. The stop signal may thus retard recruitment until balance is restored.