Honey bee communication
Honey bee communication
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蜜蜂通讯
作者：
J. L. Gould
50多年前，冯·弗里施证明，觅食蜜蜂通过“跳舞”的方式引起了潜在新兵的兴趣。这些实验表明，觅食者的身体提供了关于食物来源气味的足够信息，使其他蜜蜂能够在田野中找到食物。此外，冯·弗里施还证明，觅食者还会在食物来源留下气味，以帮助新兵进行搜索。冯·弗里施后来发现，舞蹈中还包含了距离和方向信息，新兵似乎可以使用这些信息。
MORE than fifty years ago von Frisch demonstrated that foraging honey bees aroused the interest of potential recruits by means of a ‘dance’1. These experiments showed that the forager's body provides sufficient information about the odour of the food source to enable other bees to find that food in the field. In addition von Frisch demonstrated that foragers also leave odours at the food source which aid recruits in their searches1,2. Von Frisch later found that the dance also contains distance and direction information which the recruits seem able to use3,4.