Fig. 2: Honeybee foraging.
From: Foraging distance distributions reveal how honeybee waggle dance recruitment varies with landscape
a A hypothetical illustration of a typical foraging honeybee, foraging with scouting only. Foragers leave the hive on a search path with straight segments (white lines) and continue until they encounter a resource (coloured circles). b An illustration of honeybees foraging with recruitment. Foragers that have identified resources in scouting trips (white lines) convey this information on the dance floor (brown disc), where foragers can sample dances reporting on both scouting and recruiting trips and follow these directions (yellow lines). c Complementary cumulative frequencies of foraging distances reported from scouting and recruit trips from a simulation model (see Materials and Methods). Note the difference in the shape of the distributions. The scout distribution is best fit by an exponential (grey straight line), the recruit distribution by a Rayleigh distribution (black curve).
