AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bee Dance. Honeybees have evolved complex communication systems to maintain the colony. The bees communicate continuously, inside and outside the nest. One specific communication behavior is the bee dance, which serves to recruit nest mates to flowers, water, or new nesting sites.

Detailed explanation-2: -The foraging ‘scouts’ of the honeybees can travel up to 14km from their nest to find the best source of nectar. In order to communicate what they’ve found and where it is, they dance: ‘round dances’ and ‘waggle dances’. The ‘round dance’ signals to their nest-mates that there is a lucrative pollen area nearby.

Detailed explanation-3: -When a worker discovers a good source of nectar or pollen (note the pollen spores dusting this bee’s back), she will return to the hive to perform a waggle dance to let her nest mates know where it lies. A bee performs the waggle dance when she wants to inform other bees of a nectar source she has found.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alarm Dance: Purpose is to warn others of the danger when a food source is contaminated. In this dance, the bee vibrates vigorously and runs in a zigzag, spiral motion. Tremble Dance: Purpose is to inform other bees that a large load of nectar has arrived in the hive for processing.