Waggle dance of honey bee

What is waggle dance?

 The waggle dance is special movement ("figure-of-eight") that is done by the honey bee near of its hive. By this process, a worker bee tells the others where it has found nectar (sugar- rich liquid produced by plants).This was shown by the Australian Ethologist  Karl von Frisch .

Why they do the waggle dance?

When a worker discovers a good source of nectar or pollen , she will return to near his hive to perform a waggle dance to let her nest( house of birds) mates know where it lies . A bee performs the waggle dance when she wants to inform other bees of a nectar or water source she found.

 It is used to be thought that bees have two distinct requirement dances. There were the "Round dances" and "waggle dances".Round dances were thought to be  used for things that were close by and Waggle dances for things farther away . It is now known that a round dance is only a waggle dance with a very short "Waggle run" (when the bee run through a small wave like pattern , it is  called Waggle run or Waggle phase).

Things you need to know about Waggle dance!

 A waggle dance is made up of  1 to 100 or more circuits ( here circuit means rotation). Each circuit has two phases. These phases are the waggle phase and the return phase. When a bee returns to the hive after finding a good food source , it performs the dance & running method of the bee is called waggle run.

  After this it will turn to the right and circle back to the starting point (the return phase) .It will then do another waggle run and then turn to the left and circle back to the starting point.

Relation between direction , duration of waggle run with the angle of sun 

 The direction and duration of waggle runs show the direction and distance to flowers. Flowers that are located directly in line with the sun are shown by waggle runs in an upward direction of vertical combs.  If the flowers are at an angle to the right or left of the sun , the waggle run is done at the same angle to the upward direction.


      The distance between hive and flowers is shown in the duration of the waggle runs . The farther the flowers are from the hive , the longer the waggle phase .



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