Dances with Bees

A honeybee hive needs lots of honey and that means a lot of flower nectar. When a scout bee finds flowers, she goes back to the hive to tell the other bees where the flowers are. How does she tell them? She dances! Find out if you, too, can do a dance that explains where to find food.

Activity

Print the Activity Sheet
You may want to print the Activity Sheet, too, so that you can refer to it while experimenting.

Online Resources

Dances with Bees: Tales from the Hive
Watch videos of different bee dances.

Bee Language
Hear how competition for food sources may have pressured honeybees to evolve dance language in this Science Update.