How Honey Bees Communicate.

communication 

 Bees communicate via the dance language, according to Karl Von Frisch, who received the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine in 1973 for his research on honey bee communication. Honey bees may also guide other bees to food sources by performing the

1.  Round dance
2. Dance waggle           
   

Dance language of the Honey bees

Round dance 

•  It tells the other foragers that food is with 50 meters of the hive, but it does not provide much information regarding direction

 Waggle Dance

•  It may be vertical or horizontal 
•  It provides more detail about the distance and direction of food source 
•  It is usually used when an experienced forager returns to her colony with a load of food, either nectar or pollen 
•  If the quality of food is insufficiently high, she will often perform a “dance” on the surface of wax comb to recruit new foragers to the resource 
•  Bees are also rely on their olfactory sense to help locate the food source if the foragers are given directions from the dance
  
  
  

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