Prof Tom Seeley ’The bee colony as a honey factory’ . Tom will explore how a colony of honey bees operates as a factory that produces honey efficiently despite tremendous day-to-day swings in the supply of nectar, the raw material for making honey. An important feature of the organization of the honey production process is a division of labor between the nectar foragers (elderly workers who toil outside the hive collecting the nectar) and the nectar receivers (middle-age workers who toil inside the hive converting the nectar into honey). Tom will demonstrate how the nectar foragers can boost their colony’s rate of nectar collecting during a honey flow, using the waggle dance and the shaking signal. And he will explain how these bees can also boost their colony’s rate of nectar processing—to keep the rates of nectar collecting and nectar processing in balance—by means of the tremble dance and stop signal. Tom will show videos of nectar foragers producing these signals, each in its own, specific context.
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