UK. How to decode the Honey Bee Waggle Dance (cómo decodificar la danza de las abejas, curso)

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17 june 2011 How to decode the Honey Bee Waggle Dance

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Decode the Honey Bee Waggle Dance Workshop - Honey bees have sophisticated communication systems which they use to coordinate colony activities. The best known is the 'waggle dance'.

How to decode the Honey Bee Waggle 

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Decode the Honey Bee Waggle Dance Workshop - Honey bees have sophisticated communication systems which they use to coordinate colony activities. The best known is the 'waggle dance'.

Foragers who have located profitable flower patches make waggle dances back in the hive.These communicate the direction and distance of the flower patch to nest mate bees who follow the dance.

In 1973 Karl von Frisch received a Nobel Prize for discovering the waggle dance. The waggle dance is one of the few scientific discoveries awarded a Nobel Prize that can be seen with the naked eye.

The honey bee is the only animal that "tells you where it has been". This can be used in many ways by scientists. It can be used, for example, to investigate how flying insects measure distance. It can also be used to learn where honey bees are collecting food, and to study their foraging patterns and they vary with time.

The workshop is targeted at anyone interested in science, as well as people with particular interests in honey bees, plants, and conservation.

The workshop will be taught by Professor Francis Ratnieks, Dr. Margaret Couvillon, Ms. Fiona Riddell and other bee researchers from the Laboratory of Apiculture & Social Insects (LASI) at the University of Sussex. LASI is using dance decoding to understand honey bee foraging as part of the Sussex Plan for Honey Bee Health & Well Being.

To attend this workshop please complete the registration document and email to Karin.Alton@sussex.ac.uk

Venue: The Laboratory of Apiculture & Social Insects, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton

Cost: Attendance is free and is limited to 25 people per session.

Registration: Please contact Karin Alton on 01273 872587 or at Karin.Alton@sussex.ac.uk

Equipment: Notebook and pen. WE will not be opening bee hives so a veil is not needed.

For more info please view the details of the University of Sussex Workshop