Navigation and dance communication in hoenybees

自卡尔·冯·弗里施的发现以来，蜜蜂摇摆舞中信息传递的象征特征已经得到了充分的证实。然而，很少有人知道新兵是如何解码这些信息的，以及他们如何在出港航班上使用这些信息。我们将通过录像记录舞蹈交流过程和记录从跳舞的蜜蜂发出的电场来解决这个问题。然后用谐波雷达跟踪被招募蜜蜂的出站飞行。这能让我们量化新成员的解码过程。我们将用一种新颖的装置来量化摇摆舞中的信息传递，这种装置可以用跳舞蜜蜂发出的电场来测量距离和方向代码。这些测量将使我们能够更精确地定位天然食物来源和潜在巢穴的位置。由于新兵是经验丰富的蜜蜂，我们将询问他们是否可以将从舞蹈者那里收集到的信息引用到景观结构的记忆中，从而可能对朝向指定目标的飞行路线产生期望。

The symbolic character of information transfer in the waggle dance of honeybees is well founded since the discoveries by Karl von Frisch. However, little is known how recruits decode this information and how they use it in the outbound flights. We shall address this question by video recording the dance communication process and by recording the electric fields emanating from the dancing bee. Then the outbound flight of the recruited bee will be tracked with harmonic radar. This will allow us to quantify the decoding process on the side of the recruits. We shall quantify the information transfer in the waggle dance with a novel device that measures the distance and direction code with the electric fields emanating from the dancing bee. These measurements will allow us to localize more precisely the places of natural food sources and potential nest sites. Since recruits are experienced bees we shall ask whether they may refer the information collected from the dancer to the memory of the landscape structure, and thus may develop expectations of the flight route towards the indicated goal.