Broadly, we tested whether individuality in communication behavior between honey bee foragers affects the likelihood of communication success.
Honey bee foragers can communicate a distance and direction to a resource on the landscape, like a flower patch, by performing a waggle dance inside their colony. Unoccupied foragers in the colony may follow a dance, interpret the distance and direction communicated by it, and set out to find the resource themselves. Intriguingly, each forager bee communicates the distance to the resource according to a calibration (real-world-distance to waggle-dance-distance) that is unique unto herself. We tested two related hypotheses: (1) that bees having more similar calibrations would be more likely to communicate successfully, and (2) that when mismatch occurred, dance-followers who would be predicted to overshoot the resource based on their own calibrations would be more likely to succeed at finding the resource than bees we would predict to undershoot the resource.
This repository contains all the data in .csv format, as well as the code used for data preparation and analysis.
Publisher
University Libraries, Virginia TechCorresponding Author Name
Laura McHenryFiles/Folders in Dataset and Description
08_repository
└── 04_data # FOLDER: data files
│ ├── DF.pairs.csv # Dancer-Follower Pairs
│ ├── feeder.visits.csv # feeder visit data
│ ├── feeder.visits.key.csv # metadata for feeder visit data
│ ├── HC.duration.data # waggle run duration data for experimental bees, for the feeder distance at which recruitment events occurred
│ ├── HC.duration.data.calib # waggle run duration data for experimental bees, at the other feeder distance (when this was possible)
│ ├── Retag.csv # tUID combinations that would be re-tags
│ ├── T1.dances.csv # Trial 1 waggle dance occurrence data
│ ├── T1.dances.key.csv # metadata for Trial 1 dance data
│ ├── T2. dances.csv # Trial 2 waggle dance occurrence data
│ ├── T2. dances.key.csv # metadata for Trial 2 dance data
│ ├── distance_calib_obj_Universal1000.RData # Universal Waggle Dance Distance Calibration Object (Schürch et al., 2019)
│ └── Vid_Datasheets # FOLDER: blank datasheets generated mid-analysis to facilitate collection of additional waggle run durations (that would later become the dataset herein called "HC.duration.data.calib")
│ ├── HiveComms WR Duration Data for Calibrations D1 subset # template datasheet for bees needing waggle run data for Distance 1
│ ├── HiveComms WR Duration Data for Calibrations D2 subset # template datasheet for bees needing waggle run data for Distance 2
└── 05_code # FOLDER: all code needed for analysis & reports
│ └── R # FOLDER: all R scripts - analysis
│ │ ├── 001_hivecomms_master.R # R main file sourcing all other files
│ │ ├── 002_hivecomms_dataprep.R # data preparation file for R
│ │ ├── 003_hivecomms_analysis.R # analysis file for R
│ │ ├── 004_hivecomms_figures.R # figure generation file for R
│ │ ├── 099_hivecomms_loaddata.R # file used to download data from Google Drive to R
│ └── Rmd # FOLDER: all .Rmd documents - report generation
│ │ ├── 000_Calibration_Stat_Report.Rmd # source of statistical report
└── 06_reports # FOLDER: Reports (statistics)
│ ├── 000_Calibration_Stat_Report.rtf # Rich text output of stat report
│ └── Figures # FOLDER: figures generated by 003_hivecomms_figures.R file
│ │ ├── Panel.A.png # Panel A - showing waggle run data from highlighted pair of bees
│ │ ├── Panel.B.plain.png # Panel B (plain) - showing waggle run duration data for all pairs
│ │ ├── Panel.B.png # Panel B - same as Panel.B.plain, but with green line connecting highlighted pair
│ │ ├── Panel.C.quant.png # Panel C - showing observed and expected duration difference distributions
│ │ ├── ThreePanelFig.png # Panels A, B, C stitched together
│ │ ├── McHenry.F1.pdf # PDF file as supplied to Current Biology
│ │ ├── McHenry.F1.svg # SVG file as supplied to Current Biology (editable in Inkscape or similar)
└── 07_background_literature # FOLDER: holding background literature
├── Calibration.bib # BetterBibTex .bib file containing works cited for this project.
├── packages_and_versions.csv # .csv file containing packages and versions used in this project.
└── renv # FOLDER: contains R package information and other files needed by renv for reproducibility.
├── DESCRIPTION # text file needed by renv when making an explicit snapshot.
├── ReadMe.html # The README you are currently reading
├── ReadMe.md # The README you are currently reading (markdown)
├── renv.lock # The lockfile that is used by renv::restore() to restore the r environment.
├── 08_repository.Rproj # The R Project for this repository.
