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How do bees communicate with each other? Discuss with suitable diagrams and examples.

27 Feb 2026
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Bees communicate with each other through a highly organized system of movements, chemical signals, sounds, and physical contact. Communication is essential for the survival of the colony because bees must coordinate activities such as foraging, defense, swarming, brood care, and maintaining hive temperature. The most remarkable form of communication in honeybees is the “dance language,” discovered by Karl von Frisch, which conveys precise information about food sources. The most well-known dances are the round dance and the waggle dance. The round dance is performed when food is located close to the hive, usually within about 50–100 meters. In this dance, the forager bee moves in a circular pattern, alternately turning left and right. This dance does not indicate direction but signals that food is nearby. Other bees respond by leaving the hive and searching around the surrounding area using scent cues. Simple representation of round dance: ↺ ↻ (circular movements alternating) When the food source is farther away, the bee performs the waggle dance. This dance communicates both direction and distance.
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