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Simulation of the Feedbacks and Regulation of Recruitment Dancing in Honey Bees

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  • Carl Anderson

    (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK)

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Honey bee nectar foragers returning to the hive experience a delay as they search for a receiver bee to whom they transfer their material. In this paper I describe the simulation of the "threshold rule" (Seeley, 1995) which relates the magnitude of this search delay to the probability of performing a recriutment dance — waggle dance, tremble dance, or no dance. Results show that this rule leads to self-organised near-optimal worker allocation in a fluctuating environment, is extremely robust, and operates over a wide range of parameter values. The reason for the robustness appears to be the particular sytem of feedbacks that operate within the system.

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  • Carl Anderson, 1998. "Simulation of the Feedbacks and Regulation of Recruitment Dancing in Honey Bees," Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 1(02n03), pages 267-282.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:acsxxx:v:01:y:1998:i:02n03:n:s0219525998000181
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219525998000181
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    1. T. Schmickl & K. Crailsheim, 2007. "TaskSelSim: a model of the self-organization of the division of labour in honeybees," Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 101-125, August.
    2. Schmickl, Thomas & Crailsheim, Karl, 2007. "HoPoMo: A model of honeybee intracolonial population dynamics and resource management," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 204(1), pages 219-245.

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