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 dayFeeder: identity of the feederColonies: identity of the colonies used in that daydistFeedHive: distance between feeders and hiveFirstObs: timestamp of the first observation in that day and feederLastObs: timestamp of the last observation in that day and feederTotalObs: 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 dayDay: day of the year when the experiment was performed.Feeder: identity of the feederFirstVisit: timestamp of the first visit per beeTotalObs: total number of times a particular bee was observed in a feederreturnTrips: number of trips in sequence to the same feederPersistence: average of return trips per feeder