communication

Hi all, I'm Anabella and I'm a graduate student at Texas Tech University. I'm writing my master's report on communicating for conservation. My research seeks to examine audience perceptions of pollinator conservation on social media. Data from the survey will help inform conservation managers...

I read the waggle dance is to communicate the direction and distance to food. So my question is... If you swing an observation hive or rotate it, changing its orientation to the earth and sun (north south east west), would that cause bees doing waggle dance to send the other bees in the wrong...

Florida’s managed bee colonies have increased by more than 145 percent in the last eight years. Space Coast Daily http://spacecoastdaily.com/2015/05/dont-worry-bee-happy-floridas-bee-colonies-increasing/ WFSU http://news.wfsu.org/post/florida-s-bee-population-rise Sunshine State News...

Dance Communication Affects Consistency, but Not Breadth, of Resource Use in Pollen-Foraging Honey Bees In groups of cooperatively foraging individuals, communication may improve the group’s performance by directing foraging effort to where it is most useful. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) use a...