Bee Controversy Breakthroughs: Odor-Search vs. “Language”
| BEE CONTROVERSY BREAKTHROUGHS — Odor-Search vs. “Language” | |
| 1971 – | Book publication (The Bee Language Controversy) |
| 1971 - | Physiological Zoology article by Wells & Wenner (Food scent and foraging behavior) |
| 1970s and later – | Ruth Rosin entrance and persistence |
| 1970s and later – | Gould and others; continued attempts to “prove” language (If already a “fact,” why keep trying to prove “language” exists?) |
| 1973 - | Nature feature article (Olfactory cues, not “language” use, can explain recruit success) |
| 1985 - | Columbia University Press contract |
| 1987 - | American Bee Journal article by Wenner & Wells |
| 1988 (?) - | Rosin’s discovery of von Frisch 1937 article (Searching bees use only odor) |
| 1988 and later - | Santa Cruz Island project (Clarify use of odor & wind by searching recruits) |
| 1989 - | American Zoologist invited article (Concept-centered vs. organism-centered) |
| 1990 - | Anatomy of a Controversy publication (Columbia Univ. Press) |
| 1990s - | renewed attendance at bee meetings |
| 1990s - | e-mail network exchanges (BEE-L, SOCINSCT, HPSST, COMP. PSYCH) |
| 1990s - | open publication of letters by bee magazines |
| 1991 - | American Zoologist invited article by Wenner, Meade, & Friesen (Search dynamics) |
| 1991 - | Los Angeles Times article |
| 1992 - | Southwick review of Wenner, Meade, & Friesen article |
| 1993 - | Bee World; Von Frisch 1937 article republished (Forward written by Wenner) |
| 1997 - | Joe Traynor Bee Culture article — Island Odyssey: Santa Cruz Island and a visit with Adrian Wenner |
| 1997 - | Wichita symposium publication (The role of controversy in animal behavior) |
| 1998 - | Handbook of Comparative Psychology chapter (Honey bee “dance language” controversy) |
| 1998 - | American Bee Journal series on wind and odor (Summary of Larry Friesen’s work, in part) |
| 2000 - | Barry Birkey domain & web site: www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/index.htm |
| 2000 - | Sanford summary of that web site in the October issue of Bee Culture |
| 2002 - | Discovery of von Frisch 1943 odor-search article (Odor, not “language”) |
| 2002 - | Journal of Insect Behavior forum article (“Elusive” language hypothesis) beesource.com/pov/wenner/jib2002.htm |
| 2002 - | Co-investigator (informal): Land mine research (“Nectar collectors as odor detectors”) |
| 2005 - | Keynote Lecturer and symposium presentation at the 3rd European Congress on Social Insects in St. Petersburg, Russia (August 2005) |
| 2005 - | Elected president of the Western Apicultural Society |
| 2006 - | Plenary Lecturer during opening ceremonies at the 8th European Congress of Entomology in Izmir (Kusadasi), Turkey (September 2006) |
| 2006 - | Honey bee genome studies reveal 170 odor receptor genes and 10 taste receptor genes (but zero receptor genes attributable to use of distance and direction information found in the dance maneuver) |
| Adrian M. Wenner
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