While watching the fifth assignment from week one, "Bee Foraging", i was interested to have get perspective through how the bee sees. Compared to some animals they have fairly good vision, although compared to others it's quite bad. It's very cool that bees communicate through a kind of dance. Who knew that a dance could tell where, how far, and what will be at a certain place. It's very interesting that not only do bees have their own internal clock, but they also have an internal odometer measured by fuel consumption and an internal compass.
Next time I'm in the apiary or the garden, I'm going to look for a bee doing a sort of dance to tell the others where the best place to go forage is.
This article makes me wonder why the bees sting the forager bee to death if they don't tell the hive all the information they need from it. I also wonder how they make the special sound that is their version of asking for more information.
good post:
ReplyDeleteYou probably won't be able to see their dance in the garden since they only do it in the hive. They don't mention it in the video, but when they get really excited about a food source they'll actually recruit others to dance with them and it winds up looking like a line dance in an insane assylum.
Hahaha! That's so cool! I'll keep an eye out for the line dance.
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