AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -An individual bee vibrating its wings isn’t enough to raise the surrounding temperature significantly, but when thousands of bees vibrate their wings in a small space, the heat generated is enough to keep all the bees alive throughout the cold winter months.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -A tremble dance is a dance performed by forager honey bees of the species Apis mellifera to recruit more receiver honey bees to collect nectar from the workers.

Detailed explanation-4: -To recruit and guide nestmates to a newly discovered resource, a honey bee performs a dance indicating to her followers the direction and distance of the resource from the hive. The dance is usually performed in darkness on a comb’s vertical surface.

Detailed explanation-5: -When temperatures in the winter drop below 50 °F (10 °C), honeybees retreat to their hives and form a winter cluster to keep warm-sort of like a giant three-month slumber party.