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SUMMARY:The honeybee waggle dance: evolutionary marvel but modern-day reli
 c? - Elli Leadbeater\, Royal Holloway University of London
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CONTACT:Dr Emily Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:The honeybee (Apis mellifera) dance communication system is a 
 marvel of collective behaviour\, but the added value it brings to colony f
 oraging efficiency is poorly understood. In temperate environments\, preve
 nting communication of foraging locations rarely decreases colony food int
 ake\, potentially because simultaneous transmission of olfactory informati
 on plays an overwhelmingly dominant role in foraging. This has led to the 
 understanding that recruitment to food through dancing is a novel but rare
 ly useful phenomenon outside the tropical environments where Apis evolved.
  Here\, I will first show how social network analyses can be used to disen
 tangle the contributions of multiple information networks to the spread of
  a behaviour\, identifying the contexts in which dance communication truly
  matters amid a complex system full of redundancy. I will then show how th
 e decoding the dance communication system can be used to quantify the reso
 urces offered to pollinators in modern-day agricultural environments that 
 pose major conservation challenges. The honeybee waggle dance is an evolut
 ionary marvel that is not only useful to bees\, but also to those who seek
  to conserve both managed and wild pollinators in modern-day landscapes th
 at are becoming increasingly barren for insect life.
LOCATION:Main Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology but also online (ask
  organizers for link).
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