1946 FRISCH, Karl Ritter von (1886 – 1982)

Die Tänze der Bienen.

Von Frisch discovered the waggle dance, a particular figure-eight dance of honey bees by which successful foragers can communicate information with other members of their colony about the direction and distance to pat…

GMN 14138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16452

1959 BUTENANDT, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903 – 1995); KARLSON, Peter

Pheromones (ectohormones) in insects.

Karlson and Butenandt (Nobel Prize 1939) defined pheromones as “substances which are secreted to the outside by an individual of the same species, in which they release a specific reaction, for example, a definite beh…

GMN 14056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16366

2023 NIEH, James C.; DONG, Shihao; LIN, Tao; TAN, Ken

Social signal learning of the waggle dance in honey bees.

The authors showed that the complex waggle dance, previously thought to be an inborn trait, is partly learned by young bees as they observe more experienced bees. Abstract: "Honey bees use a complex form of spatial re…

GMN 14139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16453