Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
Bull Math Biol. 2012 Nov;74(11):2600-21. doi: 10.1007/s11538-012-9769-2. Epub 2012 Aug 14.
When a colony of honeybees relocates to a new nest site, less than 5 % of the bees (the scout bees) know the location of the new nest. Nevertheless, the small minority of informed bees manages to provide guidance to the rest and the entire swarm is able to fly to the new nest intact. The streaker bee hypothesis, one of the several theories proposed to explain the guidance mechanism in bee swarms, seems to be supported by recent experimental observations. The theory suggests that the informed bees make high-speed flights through the swarm in the direction of the new nest, hence conspicuously pointing to the desired direction of travel. This work presents a mathematical model of flight guidance in bee swarms based on the streaker bee hypothesis. Numerical experiments, parameter studies, and comparison with experimental data are presented.
当一群蜜蜂迁移到一个新的巢址时，只有不到 5%的蜜蜂（侦察蜂）知道新巢的位置。然而，少数知情的蜜蜂设法为其余蜜蜂提供指导，整个蜂群能够完整地飞往新巢。条纹蜂假说，是解释蜜蜂群导向机制的几种理论之一，似乎得到了最近的实验观察的支持。该理论表明，知情蜜蜂在蜂群中以高速飞行，指向新巢的方向，从而明显指出了期望的行进方向。本文基于条纹蜂假说提出了一个蜜蜂群飞行导向的数学模型。本文呈现了数值实验、参数研究以及与实验数据的比较。
