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Waggle dance of a bee: explained.
JackM:
Very cool.
What is your source of this information? Did you discover this? If so how did you follow/isolate one bee? Not trying to be a dick, which it probably sounds like, I am truly interested in how this was figured out.
Michael Bush:
Karl von Frisch figured it out and wrote several papers on the topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_von_Frisch
BeeMaster2:
--- Quote from: JackM on April 10, 2018, 10:15:45 am ---Very cool.
What is your source of this information? Did you discover this? If so how did you follow/isolate one bee? Not trying to be a dick, which it probably sounds like, I am truly interested in how this was figured out.
--- End quote ---
Capt,
Several years ago a team was studying the dance and put numbers on the backs of a lot of bees and had feeder stations at set coordinates. They had one person watching the bees on the comb, one at the entrance marking the time a bee left and returned and a person at each feed station marking arrival and departure times.
I do not recall that they provided the time per second on the video.
I will see if I can find the video and add a link.
Jim
BeeMaster2:
Here is a write up of the study. The first part is about crows, scroll down for the bee dance study.
https://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~ksoma/306.15%20Spr17%20Feeding%20Behavior%201.pdf
BeeMaster2:
Here is the link I was looking for. It does have the travel time included.
https://youtu.be/Vaszh2bY3mc
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