研究人員在日前的美國《國家科學院院刊》網(wǎng)絡版上報告說,，昏昏欲睡的意蜂（Apis mellifera）也是毫無條理可言的,。
每天早晨，蜜蜂便踏上了它們日常的覓食之旅,，之后回到蜂巢再跳上一段搖擺舞（指蜜蜂互相傳遞蜜源地點信息時跳的舞）,。蜜蜂的身體相對于太陽的角度表示了其同伴飛往可采蜜的花朵的方向，而蜜蜂舞蹈持續(xù)的時間則是在訴說這些花朵離它們有多遠,。與休息好的蜜蜂相比,，缺乏睡眠的蜜蜂——在研究人員的擾動下整晚地熬夜——在傳達花朵的方向時會出現(xiàn)更多的差錯；這種情況至少要等到它們補上覺后才有改觀,。證明蜜蜂失眠是否對種群生存有害的試驗正在進行當中,，在結果出來之前，建議工蜂還是要蜷縮在蜂巢中,，到晚上9點再來上一杯熱花蜜,。（生物谷Bioon.com）
生物谷推薦原文出處：
PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1009439108
Sleep deprivation impairs precision of waggle dance signaling in honey bees
Barrett A. Kleina,1, Arno Kleinb, Margaret K. Wrayc, Ulrich G. Muellera, and Thomas D. Seeleyc
Abstract
Sleep is essential for basic survival, and insufficient sleep leads to a variety of dysfunctions. In humans, one of the most profound consequences of sleep deprivation is imprecise or irrational communication, demonstrated by degradation in signaling as well as in receiving information. Communication in nonhuman animals may suffer analogous degradation of precision, perhaps with especially damaging consequences for social animals. However, society-specific consequences of sleep loss have rarely been explored, and no function of sleep has been ascribed to a truly social (eusocial) organism in the context of its society. Here we show that sleep-deprived honey bees (Apis mellifera) exhibit reduced precision when signaling direction information to food sources in their waggle dances. The deterioration of the honey bee's ability to communicate is expected to reduce the foraging efficiency of nestmates. This study demonstrates the impact of sleep deprivation on signaling in a eusocial animal. If the deterioration of signals made by sleep-deprived honey bees and humans is generalizable, then imprecise communication may be one detrimental effect of sleep loss shared by social organisms.
