ENVS 2210 Chapter Notes -Gametocyte, Torpor, Brood Comb
17 Apr 2013
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Honeybees and stingless bees cannot fulfill life outside the colony. Queen rules b/c of chemical force, pheromones that influence genetic expression and beh. Colony is own biological central heating and air conditioning unit. Communication is action where one animal influences another animal, message: visual: colour, posture, shape, timing, sound: limited, chemical: infochemicals, produced by one and influence another. Maurice maeterlinck awarded nobel prize for vie de abeilles . Karl ritter von frisch shared nobel prize in medicine about dance lang in 1923: 3 types of bee dances, food location dance fall into 3 categories. Round dance performed when source of food is close to hive. Waggle dance (waggle abdomens from side to side) when making run btwn two loops of dance. Dance for several seconds to a minute in one spot before moving to another spot on the hive. Indicate quality of food by liveliness of dance.
