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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.〔Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2001) Are you being served? Supermarkets and bee hives. ''The Beekeepers Quarterly.'' Vol. 67, pp. 26-27.〕 The tremble dance was first described by Karl von Frisch in the 1920s (who was also first to describe the waggle dance), but no light was shed on its function until 1993 when Wolfgang Kirschner discovered that, when performed, the dance stopped nearby workers from flying to gather more nectar.〔Kirchner, Wolfgang H. (September 1993) Vibrational signals in the tremble dance of the honeybee, ''Apis mellifera''. ''Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.'' Vol. 33, Number 3. pp. 169-172.〕 The tremble dance of the honeybee is similar to the waggle dance, but is used by a forager when the foraging bee perceives a long delay in unloading its nectar or a shortage of receiver bees, sometimes due to low numbers of receiver bees.〔Thom, Corinna. (March 2003) The tremble dance of honey bees can be caused by hive-external foraging experience. ''The Journal of Experimental Biology.'' Vol. 206, pp. 2111-2116〕 It may also spread the scent released during the forager's waggle dance.〔Thom C., Gilley D.C., Hooper J., Esch H.E. (September 2007) The scent of the waggle dance. ''PLoS Biology.'' Vol. 5, Issue 9. e228. pp. 1862-1867.〕 Like the waggle dance, the tremble dance is likely one of two "primary regulation mechanisms" for regulating bee colony behavior at the group level, and one of four or five observed mechanisms known to be used by honeybees to change the task allocation among worker bees.〔Anderson, Carl; Ratnieks, Francis L. W. (July 1999) Worker allocation in insect societies: coordination of nectar foragers and nectar receivers in honey bee (''Apis mellifera'') colonies. ''Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.'' Vol. 6, Number 2. pp. 73-81〕 The consumption of ethanol by foraging bees has been shown to increase the occurrence of the tremble dance while decreasing the occurrence of the waggle dance.〔Bozic J., C. Abramson, M. Bedencic. (April 2006) Reduced ability of ethanol drinkers for social communication in honeybees (Apis mellifera carnica Poll.). ''Alcohol.'' Volume 38 , Issue 3. pp. 179-183.〕 == See also == *Bee learning and communication *Waggle dance *Grooming dance *Eusociality *Bee Piping 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tremble dance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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