HoneybeeWaggle: Honeybee Waggle
Description
Honeybee dance duration and distance to nesting site
Format
A dataset with 7 observations on the following 2 variables.
DistanceDistance to the potential nest site (in meters)
Duration Duration of the waggle dance (in seconds)
Source
Seeley, T., Honeybee Democracy, Princeton University Press,
Princeton, NJ, 2010, p. 128Details
When honeybee scouts find a food source or a nice site for a new home, they
communicate the location to the rest of the swarm by doing a "waggle dance."
They point in the direction of the site and dance longer for sites farther
away. The rest of the bees use the duration of the dance to predict distance
to the site.