Function

Solutions adopted in beehive

To ease communication

Dance simplicity, use of odors, location for dances at entrance

To reduce false or irrelevant data

Free speech, transparency, redundant supervision, relevance filtering

To mitigate loss of data

Dance protocols, redundancy of channels (dances and odors)

To ease credit attribution

Recognition of odors is immediate

To reduce unreal credit attribution

Production of pheromones guide behavior in closed loop with production, queen supersedure, decisions subjected to evaluation of colony members

To reduce credit loss

Odors are robust identification method, low conflict level, workers eggs destruction, decision maker limitation, redundant supervision, universality