Task allocation and site fidelity jointly influence foraging regulation in honey bee colonies

In this dataset we are sharing behavioral observations of honey bees foraging for two feeders placed near their hive. This data was used to assess the persistence of honey bees at foraging for a particular resource location when presented with two different feeders with sucrose solution. We marked foragers for individual identification using water-based acrylic, and recorded the time at which they visited a feeder. Between February 3rd and 26th (2016), we observed 1307 trips from 323 honey bee foragers from five different colonies.

For more information, we refer to our paper:
Mosqueiro T, Cook C, Huerta R, Gadau J, Smith B, Pinter-Wollman N. 2017
Task allocation and site fidelity jointly influence foraging regulation in honeybee colonies. R. Soc. open sci. 4:170344. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170344 (in press). Preprint available here.

Columns in the metadata file:

Day: day of the year when the experiment was performed.
expID: index of each experiment within the same day
Feeder: identity of the feeder
Colonies: identity of the colonies used in that day
distFeedHive: distance between feeders and hive
FirstObs: timestamp of the first observation in that day and feeder
LastObs: timestamp of the last observation in that day and feeder
TotalObs: Total number of trips registered in that day and feeder.

Columns in the data file:

beeID: individual code assigned to a bee for each colony and day.
expID: experiments in the same day
Day: day of the year when the experiment was performed.
Feeder: identity of the feeder
FirstVisit: timestamp of the first visit per bee
TotalObs: total number of times a particular bee was observed in a feeder
returnTrips: number of trips in sequence to the same feeder
Persistence: average of return trips per feeder

本数据集公开了蜂箱附近两处饲喂器的蜜蜂觅食行为观测数据，用于评估当蜜蜂接触两份不同蔗糖溶液饲喂器时，其对特定觅食点位的持续倾向性。研究人员采用水性丙烯酸颜料对觅食蜂进行标记以实现个体识别，并记录其到访饲喂器的时间。2016年2月3日至26日期间，本团队对来自5个不同蜂群的323只觅食蜂共计1307次觅食行程完成观测。

更多详细信息请参阅本团队发表论文：
Mosqueiro T, Cook C, Huerta R, Gadau J, Smith B, Pinter-Wollman N. 2017. 任务分配与位点忠诚度共同调控蜂群觅食行为. 《英国皇家学会开放科学》（R. Soc. open sci.）4:170344. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170344（已录用待刊），预印本可在此获取。

元数据文件字段说明：
Day：实验执行当日的年内日期
expID：当日内各实验的编号索引
Feeder：饲喂器编号标识
Colonies：当日实验所用蜂群的编号标识
distFeedHive：饲喂器与蜂箱之间的距离
FirstObs：当日对应饲喂器的首次观测时间戳（timestamp）
LastObs：当日对应饲喂器的末次观测时间戳（timestamp）
TotalObs：当日对应饲喂器登记的总觅食行程数

数据文件字段说明：
beeID：针对每只蜜蜂按蜂群与观测日分配的个体编码
expID：当日内的实验编号
Day：实验执行当日的年内日期
Feeder：饲喂器编号标识
FirstVisit：单只蜜蜂首次到访饲喂器的时间戳（timestamp）
TotalObs：单只蜜蜂到访某饲喂器的总观测次数
returnTrips：连续前往同一饲喂器的行程次数
Persistence：单只蜜蜂对各饲喂器的连续往返行程平均次数