Kietzman, Parry M.Visscher, P. Kirk2019-05-082019-05-082019-03-03Parry M. Kietzman and P. Kirk Visscher, “Follower Position Does Not Affect Waggle Dance Information Transfer,” Psyche, vol. 2019, Article ID 4939120, 5 pages, 2019. doi:10.1155/2019/4939120http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89371It is known that the honey bee waggle dance communicates the distance and direction of some item of interest, most commonly a food source, to nestmates. Previous work suggests that, in order to successfully acquire the information contained in a dance, other honey bees must follow the dancer from behind. We revisit this topic using updated methodology, including a greater distance from the hive to the feeder, which produced longer, more easily-read dances. Our results are not congruent with those of earlier work, and we did not conclude that honey bees must follow a dancer from behind in order to obtain the dance information. Rather, it is more likely that a follower can successfully acquire a dance’s information regardless of where she may be located about a dancer.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalArticle - Refereed2019-05-08Copyright © 2019 Parry M. Kietzman and P. Kirk Visscher. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/4939120