Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan.
Key Laboratory of Quark and Lepton Physics (MOE) and Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China.
Sci Rep. 2023 Jul 7;13(1):11015. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-37785-8.
Social entrainment is important for functioning of beehive organization. By analyzing a dataset of approximately 1000 honeybees (Apis mellifera) tracked in 5 trials, we discovered that honeybees exhibit synchronized activity (bursting behavior) in their locomotion. These bursts occurred spontaneously, potentially as a result of intrinsic bee interactions. The empirical data and simulations demonstrate that physical contact is one of the mechanisms for these bursts. We found that a subset of honeybees within a hive which become active before the peak of each burst, and we refer to these bees as "pioneer bees." Pioneer bees are not selected randomly, but rather, are linked to foraging behavior and waggle dancing, which may help spread external information in the hive. By using transfer entropy, we found that information flows from pioneer bees to non-pioneer bees, which suggest that the bursting behavior is caused by foraging behavior and spreading the information through the hive and promoting integrated group behavior among individuals.
社会趋同对于蜂群组织的功能至关重要。通过分析大约 1000 只蜜蜂（Apis mellifera）在 5 次试验中的跟踪数据，我们发现蜜蜂在运动中表现出同步活动（爆发行为）。这些爆发是自发产生的，可能是蜜蜂内在相互作用的结果。实证数据和模拟表明，物理接触是这些爆发的机制之一。我们发现，蜂巢中一小部分蜜蜂在每次爆发高峰期前变得活跃，我们称这些蜜蜂为“先驱蜜蜂”。先驱蜜蜂不是随机选择的，而是与觅食行为和摇摆舞有关，这可能有助于在蜂巢中传播外部信息。通过使用传递熵，我们发现信息从先驱蜜蜂流向非先驱蜜蜂，这表明爆发行为是由觅食行为引起的，通过蜂巢传播信息，并促进个体之间的整体群体行为。
