The European honeybee ( Apis mellifera) has the most advanced dance system, allowing it to transpose the position of the sun in the darkness of the hive.
To do this, the honeybees use a very elaborate system of dances called waggle dances. The Apis family includes several species of bee ( Apis mellifera, Apis indica, Apis dorsata, Apis florea) known for their ability to communicate with each other. Only humans and honeybees can communicate factual information about distant localities. Thus, our hive is a powerful tool for honeybees studies in the field and could highly contribute to facilitating new research approaches and a better understanding landscape ecology of key pollinators.
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The use of the GeoDanceHive is designed for a wide range of users, who can meet different objectives, such as researchers or professional beekeepers. To validate the encoding and sampling quality, we used an artificial feeder and visual decoding to generate maps with the vector endpoints deduced from the dance information. The time record of dances can be set up from minutes to several months. The GeoDanceHive is divided into two sections, one for the colony and the other serving as a recording studio. We designed and equipped an outdoor prototype of a production hive, later called “GeoDanceHive”, allowing the continuous recording of honeybees’ behavior such as dances and their analysis. The purpose of our study is to provide a new tool for honeybees dances recording, usable in the field, in a practical and fully automated way, without condemning the harvest of honey. They inform the other foragers by performing specific dance sequences according to the spatial characteristics of the resource. Honeybees are known for their ability to communicate about resources in their environment.
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