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If the food source they find is very rich, the dance the bees perform is very enthusiastic. If
the source is nearby, they describe its location by performing the “round dance” shown on
the left. For food sources that are further away, they perform the figure-eight dance seen on
the right, with wagging movements.

tion. First, a group of scouts leaves the hive. If that group also performs
the dance on their return, then more bees head towards the target. The bet-
ter the food source they find, the longer they dance and the more bees fol-
low them. In this way the food gatherers’ attention is always focused on
the most productive source.
In the event that the food source found is unproductive, the bees still
dance—but they do so unwillingly, and for a shorter time. This is also re-
flected to the other bees in the hive, and those bees that gathered around
the dancer soon disperse, and a new team leaves the hive in search of food.
Consider that the honeybees that perform the dance are just a few cen-
timeters long, the same insects you encounter when you go outside, walk
in your garden or sits out on a balcony. There’s an interesting contradic-
tion here. People regard honeybees as ordinary, familiar insects, yet the
phenomena we have seen so far can only be carried out with a very defi-

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