A grooming dance, grooming invitation dance or shaking dance is a dance performed by
honeybees
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus ''Apis'' of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia. After bees spread naturally throughout Africa and Eurasia, humans became responsible for the cur ...
to initiate
allogrooming. It was first reported in 1945 by biologist Mykola H. Hadak. An increase in the frequency of the grooming dance has been observed among the bees of mite-infested colonies, and among bees who have been dusted with small particles of chalk dust.
[Land, B. B., T. D. Seeley. (28 January 2004) The Grooming Invitation Dance of the Honey Bee. ''Ethology.'' Volume 110, Issue 1. pp. 1-10.]
See also
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Bee learning and communication
Bee learning and communication includes cognitive and Perception, sensory processes in all kinds of bees, that is the insects in the seven Family (biology), families making up the clade Anthophila. Some species have been studied more extensively t ...
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Tremble dance
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Waggle dance
Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding ne ...
References
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Western honey bee behavior
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