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 Afro-Eurasia. After bees spread naturally throughout Africa and Eurasia, humans became responsible for the current cosmo ...
to initiate
allogrooming
Social grooming is a behavior in which social animals, including humans, clean or maintain one another's body or appearance. A related term, allogrooming, indicates social grooming between members of the same species. Grooming is a major soci ...
. 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 sensory processes in all kinds of bees, that is the insects in the seven families making up the clade Anthophila. Some species have been studied more extensively than others, in particular '' ...
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Tremble dance
A tremble dance is a dance performed by forager honey bees of the species ''Apis mellifera'' to recruit more receiver honey bees to collect nectar from the workers.
History of discovery
The tremble dance was first described by Karl von Frisch in t ...
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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 nect ...
References
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Western honey bee behavior
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