Effect of suppressing the ambient magnetic field on the recruitment success of waggle-dancing bees.

<p>Boxplots show the mean, median lower and upper quartiles, and ± whiskers (minimum/maximum data points) of the number of honeybee nest mates recruited in morning and afternoon sessions to a feeding station in the presence (control session) or absence (treatment session) of the ambient magnetic field (see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0115665#pone-0115665-g001" target="_blank">Fig. 1B, C2</a>). The presence or absence of the ambient magnetic field had no effect on the number of recruits irrespective of the alignment of the observation hive (East–West: linear mixed effect model analysis; F_1,10 = 0.9548, p = 0.35; North–South: linear mixed effect model analysis; F_1,7 = 0.9660, p = 0.3).