Choo Yik Chee Dzairi Azmeer Elizabeth Su-Xin-Li Siti Aina Mardhiah Siti Khairunisah

1. Bees Round Dance

The round dance is used when the food source is less than 100 metres away from the hive. The dancing bee runs round in a circle in the opposite direction Bees turn round and does the same circle in the opposite direction and so on.

1. Bees Round Dance

During this dance the bees exchange food. In this way, the dancing bee gives the others a taste of the food she has found and also some of its perfume.

The richer the food source, the longer and more vigorous the dance.

2. WAGGLE DANCE

Tells what direction the food is in. How far away it is What type of food and its quality emits a buzzing sound the dance followers can make the dancer pause and give them a taste of the nectar by using a squeaking sound.

 When food is more than 75 meters from the hive, the bee
will do the waggle dance. This dance tells the direction of the food through a straight run, and also reveals how far away the food is through the speed of the dance. The length of buzzing while dancing increases as the

distance to the food source increases.

Bees seem to be able to communicate about food up to 2 kilometres away. This mode of communication is innate and bees are born with the ability to understand it.

Waggle Dance

References
__________ (n.d.) Language: Round Dance, retrieved from

http://www.ict.mic.ul.ie/2003/ eoconnor/site/language.htm (2/6/2012)

__________ (n.d.) Dances with Bees, retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees /dancesroun.html) (2/6/2012) Rachel Reuter and Lauren Lobert; retrieved from http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ling111ec/bees on 4 February 2012 (Extra reading on The Bees Communication: jacknife.med.yale.edu/nsci590/pdfs/vonfrisch1973.pdf, A lecture by Karl V. Frisch titled DECODING THE LANGUAGE OF THE BEE)