A recruiting forager enters the nest, begins producing pulsed sounds as food-unloading bees collect her food (unloading phase), and then performs a dance by rapidly executing clockwise and counter-clockwise turns while continuing to produce sound pulses (dance phase). Therefore the goal of this paper is to provide a detailed description of the behaviors of recruiting M. However there is no careful description of within-nest recruitment behavior for this species or for any other stingless bee.
Foragers of the stingless bee Melipona panamica can communicate the location of a good food source to nestmates and evidently communicate part of this information inside the nest.
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