Honey Bees on Cocaine 'Dance' When Food Is Found

[BARBARELLA]

great post, always find highly social organisms like bees and ants very interesting.

Made me think of this vid, always make me lol
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

 

[Hammilton]

Huh, who would have thought they'd take the Hive so seriously?

Anyway

What was the name of the chemical in their brains that causes the dance....sounded like serotonin.

Pretty sure it's octopamine, a neurotransmitter similar to dopamine in non-mammals (Not sure if DA is found in fish or birds, probably, I assume only low order critters use octopamine.

 

[FrostyMcFailure]

yeah that would be octopamine.