{"id":1618,"date":"2014-05-22T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2014-05-23T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:08:31","slug":"honey-bee-eavesdropping-could-assess-conservation-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/honey-bee-eavesdropping-could-assess-conservation-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey bee eavesdropping could assess conservation efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1616\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Bees2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1616\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1616\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Bees2.jpg\" alt=\"The \u2018waggle dance\u2019 that bees use to tell each other about the best foraging grounds could be used to monitor the success of environmental management programs, according to a new paper. (Photo credit: Roger Sch\u00fcrch)\" width=\"400\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Bees2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Bees2-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The \u2018waggle dance\u2019 that bees use to tell each other about the best foraging grounds could be used to monitor the success of environmental management programs, according to a new paper. (Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2014-05\/cp-wat051514.php&quot;\">Roger Sch\u00fcrch<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The famous \u2018waggle dance\u2019 that bees use to tell each other about the best foraging grounds could be used to measure the success of conservation programs, according to new research. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scientists \u2018eavesdropped\u2019 on 5,484 bee dances in a mixed urban-rural area and found that the best forage was located in a particular nearby nature reserve, but that other reserves that were impacted by lawn mowing were less favoured. The authors say the method could help monitor the success of environmental management programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(14)00394-7\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the the journal <em>Current\u00a0Biology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 22, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Margaret J. Couvillon, University of Sussex, United Kingdom<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous \u2018waggle dance\u2019 that bees use to tell each other about the best foraging grounds could be used to measure the success of conservation programs, according to new research. Scientists \u2018eavesdropped\u2019 on 5,484 bee dances in a mixed urban-rural area and found that the best forage was located in a particular nearby nature reserve, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,113,1531,1445],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-biology","tag-communication","tag-conservation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Bees2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-q6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}