bee dance?

[Drake]

Today when I was going through my hives, I noticed a worker bee doing a figure 8 dance while shaking her abdomen a few times in a timely manner.... Is there a meaning to this?

[DRUR]

Bee dance is the way bees have of communicating for nectar flows. Go here:
"http://websearch.cs.com/cs/boomframe.jsp?query=%22bee+dance%22&page=1&offset=2&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D6 5f01266c890b6a6%26clickedItemRank%3D3%26userQuery% 3D%2522bee%2Bdance%2522%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%25 3A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FBee_lear ning_and_communication%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3Dmainmenu81%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F Bee_learning_and_communication" for a more detailed description or google "bee dance".

[Drake]

well your big link didn't work, prolyl best to use www.tinyurl.com to post long links....

anyways i googled and found it very informative,

once again
thanks
drake

[Barry]

Bee dance communication is so outdated. Scientists in Belgium, using electron microscopes have discovered tiny etchings at the bottom of bee comb cells.

http://www.beesource.com/resources/point-of-view/adrian-wenner/a-true-bee-language/

If you want both sides of this issue, you'll get the less popular view here:

http://www.beesource.com/resources/point-of-view/adrian-wenner/