December 12, 2010
Blurb
We all struggle to communicate after a sleepless night, let alone pull off our best dance moves, and it seems that honeybees are no different.
Sleep-deprived bees are less proficient than their well-rested hive mates at indicating the location of a food source to other members of the colony by waggle dancing — the figure-of-eight dance used to communicate the quality and location of nectar supplies to the hive — according to a study published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
Read more at
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101213/full/news.2010.672.html
Sleep-deprived bees are less proficient than their well-rested hive mates at indicating the location of a food source to other members of the colony by waggle dancing — the figure-of-eight dance used to communicate the quality and location of nectar supplies to the hive — according to a study published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
Read more at
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101213/full/news.2010.672.html