Following the dance: Ground survey of flowers and flower-visiting insects in a summer foraging hotspot identified via honey bee waggle dance decoding

Honey bees represented 19% of all FVI, showing that dance decoding had located a hotspot that was an important foraging location not just for honey bees but also for other types of FVI. Honey bee abundance, per transect, was strongly correlated with that of other FVI (p = 0.001), particularly bumble bees (p < 0.001). However, FVI groups were not found uniformly across our study site and honey bee abundance was only weakly linked to overall species richness (p = 0.069).