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HONEYBEE DANCE [1 record]

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Record 1 2021-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Beekeeping
CONT

The dance language is used by [worker bees] to communicate at least two items of information to one or more other workers: the distance and direction to a location (usually a food source, such as a patch of flowers). … If the quality of the food is sufficiently high, [the forager] will often perform a "dance" on the surface of the wax comb to recruit new foragers to the resource.

Key term(s)
  • honeybee dance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
  • Élevage des abeilles

Spanish

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