Bees need communication to find good pollen for honey. Bees have 2 main types of dances to use when communicating with each other. They usually use a unique movement called the waggle dance. The waggle dance is a movement where the bee has to do the figure eight. Bees do this dance inside their hive, worker bees use the waggle dance a lot.
Worker bees tell other worker bees where to get high quality food. This way of talking was found by Karl von Frisch. Karl von Frisch was an Austrian scientist who studied animal behaviour. There is another type of dance that bees use when speaking to each other, it is also a really important movement when worker bees are trying to find food. It is called the round dance.
The round dance is where a bee uses its abdomen and moves in circles. When bees use the round dance it means food is very close by. This means when a sweet flower with nice pollen is very close to the hive, it is usually less than 25 to 50 meters away. Bees spend all their time making honey for their colony and for us. Bees are one of the most important animals in the world, without bees we wouldn’t have nice honey. 