Floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment

Floral scents learned during the waggle dance, a signal through which honeybees provide nestmates with spatial information on foraging sites, are an important component of recruitment. Forager bees can be reactivated to go to previously exploited food sources by perceiving scents they learned at the...

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Autores principales:	Balbuena, Maria Sol, Arenas, Andrés, Farina, Walter Marcelo
Publicado:	2012
Materias:	Communication Honeybee In-hive experience Olfactory learning Waggle dance flower honeybee learning long-term change nectar nestmate recognition olfactory cue recruitment (population dynamics) Apis mellifera Apoidea
Acceso en línea:	https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00033472_v84_n1_p77_Balbuena http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00033472_v84_n1_p77_Balbuena
Aporte de:	Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires

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spelling	paper:paper_00033472_v84_n1_p77_Balbuena2023-06-08T14:24:21Z Floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment Balbuena, Maria Sol Arenas, Andrés Farina, Walter Marcelo Communication Honeybee In-hive experience Olfactory learning Waggle dance flower honeybee learning long-term change nectar nestmate recognition olfactory cue recruitment (population dynamics) Apis mellifera Apoidea Floral scents learned during the waggle dance, a signal through which honeybees provide nestmates with spatial information on foraging sites, are an important component of recruitment. Forager bees can be reactivated to go to previously exploited food sources by perceiving scents they learned at the flowers within the dance context. Here, we tested whether floral scents experienced not at the foraging site, but via scented nectar inside the nest, can influence subsequent recruitment. We determined that bees that were exposed to scented food while in the hive tended to follow dances in which the recruiting bee presented the same odour experienced 8. days earlier. Moreover, a higher proportion of bees with in-hive experience were successfully recruited to the feeding sites scented with the experienced odours than to the feeding sites scented with novel odours. This bias in recruitment was independent of the time that the bees spent following dances. These findings suggest that associative memories acquired even as early as the first week of adult life were responsible for a variation in recruitment. We discuss our results in terms of the adaptive value of the long-term olfactory memories acquired inside the nest as a facilitator to decode the spatial information transmitted in the honeybee dance. © 2012 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Fil:Balbuena, M.S. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Arenas, A. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Farina, W.M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2012 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00033472_v84_n1_p77_Balbuena http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00033472_v84_n1_p77_Balbuena
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topic	Communication Honeybee In-hive experience Olfactory learning Waggle dance flower honeybee learning long-term change nectar nestmate recognition olfactory cue recruitment (population dynamics) Apis mellifera Apoidea
spellingShingle	Communication Honeybee In-hive experience Olfactory learning Waggle dance flower honeybee learning long-term change nectar nestmate recognition olfactory cue recruitment (population dynamics) Apis mellifera Apoidea Balbuena, Maria Sol Arenas, Andrés Farina, Walter Marcelo Floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment
topic_facet	Communication Honeybee In-hive experience Olfactory learning Waggle dance flower honeybee learning long-term change nectar nestmate recognition olfactory cue recruitment (population dynamics) Apis mellifera Apoidea
description	Floral scents learned during the waggle dance, a signal through which honeybees provide nestmates with spatial information on foraging sites, are an important component of recruitment. Forager bees can be reactivated to go to previously exploited food sources by perceiving scents they learned at the flowers within the dance context. Here, we tested whether floral scents experienced not at the foraging site, but via scented nectar inside the nest, can influence subsequent recruitment. We determined that bees that were exposed to scented food while in the hive tended to follow dances in which the recruiting bee presented the same odour experienced 8. days earlier. Moreover, a higher proportion of bees with in-hive experience were successfully recruited to the feeding sites scented with the experienced odours than to the feeding sites scented with novel odours. This bias in recruitment was independent of the time that the bees spent following dances. These findings suggest that associative memories acquired even as early as the first week of adult life were responsible for a variation in recruitment. We discuss our results in terms of the adaptive value of the long-term olfactory memories acquired inside the nest as a facilitator to decode the spatial information transmitted in the honeybee dance. © 2012 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
author	Balbuena, Maria Sol Arenas, Andrés Farina, Walter Marcelo
author_facet	Balbuena, Maria Sol Arenas, Andrés Farina, Walter Marcelo
author_sort	Balbuena, Maria Sol
title	Floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment
title_short	Floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment
title_full	Floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment
title_fullStr	Floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment
title_full_unstemmed	Floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment
title_sort	floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment
publishDate	2012
url	https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00033472_v84_n1_p77_Balbuena http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00033472_v84_n1_p77_Balbuena
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Floral scents learned inside the honeybee hive have a long-lasting effect on recruitment

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