Data from: Coupled information networks drive honeybee (Apis mellifera) collective foraging

Data were collected from behavioral experiments aimed at evaluating the relative contribution of waggle dance communication and olfactory information transfer during the reactivation of honeybee foragers to previously visited foraging sites. Within each trial, two groups of foragers from the same hive were trained to separate feeding stations. Each feeding station offered a unique scent.<br>Following a break in foraging during which the feeders were unavailable, we observed the reactivation process following the reinstallation of the feeding locations. We recorded dance-following, trophallaxis, and antennation interactions in the hive and the arrival times at the feeding stations.<br><br>The analysis is comprised of two main components: an analysis of scent-based assortative mixing within the honeybee interaction networks and a network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA). The NBDA estimates the rates of information flow across different interaction networks by taking as data the order in which foragers returned to their familiar feeders and their interactions with informed nestmates in the hive. Informed in this instance refers to bees that have already been reactivated to their familiar feeder during the trial.<br>Alongside the data, we provide fully annotated R code to carry out the analyses.本数据集的数据来源于行为学实验，旨在评估蜜蜂觅食蜂重新激活至此前造访过的觅食地点的过程中，摆尾舞（waggle dance）通讯与嗅觉信息传递的相对贡献。每次实验中，同一蜂箱的两组觅食蜂均被训练至不同的喂食站，每个喂食站均配有独特气味。 在喂食站暂时撤去、采蜜活动中断一段时间后，我们观察了重新安装喂食位置后的觅食蜂重激活过程。我们记录了蜂箱内的舞伴跟随、交哺行为与触角触碰互动，以及抵达喂食站的时间。 本分析包含两个核心模块：一是基于气味的蜜蜂互动网络同配混合分析，二是基于网络的扩散分析（network-based diffusion analysis, NBDA）。NBDA以觅食蜂返回熟悉喂食站的先后顺序，及其与蜂箱内已获知信息的巢伴的互动数据为依据，估算不同互动网络间的信息流动速率。此处的“已获知信息”指在本次实验中已被重激活至熟悉喂食站的蜜蜂。 除本数据集外，我们还提供了用于完成上述分析的完整注释版R代码。