Fig. 4. Sample curves of the thorax temperature of guard bees and their examinees
(dancing foragers) inside an observation hive. These examinees heated their
thorax immediately after the guards had made contact with them (E1, 4 s; E2, 1
s). E1 was a forager dancing for a natural source of nectar
(Stabentheiner, 2001), and E2
was a marked forager dancing for 1 mol l-1 sucrose on a feeding
place 500 m south of the hive
(Stabentheiner et al., 1995).
Air temperature near the bees for E1, 34.0°C; for E2, 29.7°C.