AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A waggle dance, or wag-tail dance, is performed by bees foraging at food sources that are over 150 meters away from the hive. This dance, unlike the round and sickle dances, communicates both distance and direction to potential recruits.

Detailed explanation-2: -Honeybees have evolved an extraordinary form of communication known as the “waggle” dance. It is highly symbolic, separated as it is in both time and space from the activity it grew out of (discovering a nectar source) and the activity it will spur on (getting other bees to go to that nectar source).

Detailed explanation-3: -Social bees In social colonies, many bees live in the same nest and each female plays a distinct role. Workers gather pollen and nectar for the colony, defend the colony against intruders, and cannot reproduce. The queen produces offspring, but doesn’t forage or leave the colony.

Detailed explanation-4: -The dances constitute a language that “tells” other workers where the food is located. By signaling both distance and direction with particular movements, the worker bee uses the dance language to recruit and direct other workers in gathering pollen and nectar.

Detailed explanation-5: -Bees communicate flower location using special dances inside the hive. One bee dances, while other bees watch to learn the directions to a specific flower patch. The dancing bee smells like the flower patch, and also gives the watching bees a taste of the nectar she gathered.