Mapping Sleeping Bees within Their Nest: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Worker Honey Bee Sleep
Figure 9
Caste-dependent maps of behavior with regard to comb cell contents.
Cell cleaners (Colony 1 pictured) were awake (o) and asleep (inside cells; triangles) primarily in the brood comb area, spending more time asleep than awake with uncapped brood in their midst. Foragers, on the other hand, spent more time awake (o) than asleep (x = deep sleep, + = light sleep) near uncapped brood comb. White = uncapped brood, red = capped brood, yellow = pollen cells, blue = uncapped nectar, green = capped honey, brown = empty comb, gray = no comb. Nest entrance/exit is indicated by an arrowhead, and was restricted to one side of the nest.