Bee DanCe

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So did you know that honey bee can dance(kepada yg dah tau takpe.. yg tak tau sila teruskan membace).. In honey bee, their foragers will communicate their floral finding so they can recruit other worker bees to forge at the same area. How do they communicate each other? They communicate in order to recruit new workers with "waggle dance" or "dance language".Karl von Frisch, a professor of zoology at the University of Munich in Germany, had interpreting what the meaning of honey bee dance.

It is said that when experinced foragers came home from forages with load of nectar or pollen that is nutritious enough to warrant to return to the sources, she perform a dance in the honey comb to tell other forages where the food is. Here, the dancer will show to thing, direction and distance of the food. The recruit forages will leave the hive and go to where the food is.

When the food is close, bee will perform round dance (figure 1). the round dance tell that the food in near the hive but the dance did not tell the direction. And if the food is in intermediate distance between 50 - 150 meter from the hive, the experienced forages will perform sickle dance. Sickle dance is transitional dance between wound dance and waggle dance. The waggle dance is to tell that the food are more farther than 150 meter from the hive.

Communicating to tell the direction is more complicated than communicating to tell the distance. The orientation of the dancing during the straight portion of waggle dancing indicates the direction of the food relative to the sun.The angle that the bee adopts, relative to vertical,
represents the angle to the flowers relative to the direction of the sun outside the hive.(figure 4)

Sources:
1. Wikipedia
2. David R. Tarpy, The Honey Bee Dance Language.