THE DANCE OF THE BEES

Bees have a way of 'talking' with one another, which they do not have to learn : that is ,it is an instinct. But the bees, language is a very strange one; it is a language of smells and of dancing. When a worker bee, searching around in a field ,finds a flower with sugary nectar in it, soon afterwards many other bees are on the spot collecting the sweet liquid from similar flowers. The same is true for a worker which bring pollen home to the hive from a flower. How does the first bee which has discovered the nectar or the pollen, tell the others of the find? It informs the other bees of the discovery by means of a dance. This has been found out by marking bees with tiny spots of coloured paint so that separate bees can be recognized. In the investigation, sa soon as a worker bee was observed in the act of discovering nectar or pollen, the investigation caught her, marked her with a coloured paint spot and freed her again. This enabled him to recognise the particular bee when she got back to the hive.

On coming back to the hive the bee climbs on to the comb and first of all gives up the nectar which she has brought to other worker bees to make it into honey. After this it begnis to dance. She dances round and round in narrow circles, frequenty reversing her direction. Her dancing excites other bees and quickly she has a trail of them following her movements. Those nearest to her keep touching her body with their "feelers" or "anntennae", which are the organs of smell. The bee dances for about a minutes and them suddenly she leaves the hive and files back to the flowers for more booty.

This dance is a meana of communication. It informs other bees in the hive that a flower rich in nectar or pollen has been found. Those who followed the dance go out too and fly to flowers of the same kind as the original source of booty. But how do they know which flowers to seek? They are nit led to them by the discover, for she files out alone after her dance. The answer is that the discoverer brought back the scent ot the rich flower on her body, and during the dance her partners smell it. The dance and scent induced them to go out at once and explore the neighbourhood for flowers with the same scent.


 

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