September 23, 2025Frontiers in Bee ScienceOpen Access

Dancing on the edge: honey bee recruitment networks are sparse and affected by individuality in waggle dance behavior

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Field experiment characterizes honey bee recruitment networks, revealing individuality impacts structure, suggesting wider applications.

Real honey bee recruitment networks are sparse, with individuals recruiting only 3.5% of nestmates compared to models.
Observations show individual bees maintain steady dancing behaviors, lacking the burstiness often expected in communication.
Individual differences in waggle dance behavior positively influence recruitment success in honey bee networks.
These findings contribute valuable empirical data for the understanding of honey bee social dynamics and recruitment networks.

McHenry et al. (2025) studied this question.

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