Bees

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Bees

• Dancing
• Defending

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Honey bees dance to tell their hive-mates where
food is located

• Round Dance is used when food is near. Bee dances
  in circles, with food sample, letting other bees
  know what the source is and that the source is
  close.
• Waggle Dance is used when food is far. More on
  next page...

See video of waggle dance
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Waggle Dance is used when food is far

• Bee indicates distance to food by time spent
  doing one dance circuit.
• Bee indicates direction to food by direction it
  waggles (1 5 below) relative to straight up
  (straight up represents toward sun).

Drawn like this
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Waggle Dance
A
go away from sun
go left of sun
B
F
C
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Wheres the Flower? 1
Your hive-mate has found food!!! Where is
it? Location A, B, C, or F? Note that sun is now
to east of hive.
Waggle dance
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Wheres the Flower? 2
Your hive-mate has found food!!! Where is
it? Location A, B, C, or F?
Waggle dance
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Wheres the Flower? 3
Your hive-mate has found food!!! Where is
it? Location A, B, C, or F?
Waggle dance
A
B
F
C
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Waggle Dance 1

• Now you found food!!
• Which way do you dance?
• Left?
• Right?
• Up?
• Down?

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Waggle Dance 2

• Now you found food!!
• Which way do you dance?
• Left?
• Right?
• Up?
• Down?

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Waggle Dance 3

• Now you found food!!
• Which way do you dance?
• Left?
• Right?
• Up?
• Down?

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Waggle Dance 4

• Now you found food!!
• Which way do you dance?
• Left?
• Right?
• Up?
• Down?

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AFRICANIZED HONEY BEES

• Hybrid between African (tough) and European (lots
  of honey) honey bee.
• Accidentally escaped in Brazil.
• Look like European bees, but behave differently

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Why Africanized Beesare more Dangerous

• Defend hive from farther away
• Get mad faster
• More attack at once
• Stay mad longer
• RESULT MORE STINGS!!

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What made Africanized Bees more aggressive in
first place?

• A Bird
• The Honeyguide bird
• Directs people to hives
• Mutualism
• Thus the best defense is a good offense
• In Europe, there is no such bird and the best
  defense is to stay quiet