Data associated with "Individuality Impacts Communication Success in Honey Bees"

Broadly, we tested whether individuality in communication behavior between honey bee foragers affects the likelihood of communication success.Honey bee foragers can communicate a distance and direction to a resource on the landscape, like a flower patch, by performing a waggle dance inside their colony. Unoccupied foragers in the colony may follow a dance, interpret the distance and direction communicated by it, and set out to find the resource themselves. Intriguingly, each forager bee communicates the distance to the resource according to a calibration (real-world-distance to waggle-dance-distance) that is unique unto herself. We tested two related hypotheses: (1) that bees having more similar calibrations would be more likely to communicate successfully, and (2) that when mismatch occurred, dance-followers who would be predicted to overshoot the resource based on their own calibrations would be more likely to succeed at finding the resource than bees we would predict to undershoot the resource.This repository contains all the data in .csv format, as well as the code used for data preparation and analysis.