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Tactile Conditioning And Movement Analysis Of Antennal Sampling Strategies In Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.)
Published on: December 12, 2012
Deciding on a new home: how do honeybees agree?
N F Britton1, N R Franks, S C Pratt
1Centre for Mathematical Biology, and Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. n.f.britton@bath.ac.uk
Proceedings. Biological Sciences
|June 25, 2002
Abstract:
A swarm of honeybees (Apis mellifera) is capable of selecting one nest-site when faced with a choice of several. We adapt classical mathematical models of disease, information and competing beliefs to such decision-making processes. We show that the collective decision may be arrived at without the necessity for any bee to make any comparison between sites.

