Echo chambers in the honeybee dance communication! We automatically detected 100K waggle phases of dancing bees and found a fascinating aspect of how bees organize their colony space. A thread.
Automated tracking of 4,201 bees at 3Hz over their lifetime reveals 2 axes of behavioral variation, lifelong consistencies in movement patterns and how colonies respond to sudden environmental change! @SmithBeeLab@j_d_davidson@tlandgraf@nebww@DDormagen https://t.co/iyVnfypUjS
Here's a blog post in the "Behind the Paper" series of Nature Ecology & Evolution that gives a bit of background about our latest paper on honey bee social networks https://t.co/AkPDJEv2tM
(direct link to paper: https://t.co/R34njcP7qD )