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NewsBee User ID: 62920449 United States 10/25/2014 03:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They are doing the Waggle Dance :) The Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share, with other members of the colony, information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new housing locations. A waggle dance with a very short waggle run used to be characterized as a distinct (round) recruitment dance . Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch was one of the first who translated the meaning of the waggle dance. [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
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emerald_glow (OP) User ID: 63078379 United States 10/25/2014 03:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They are doing the Waggle Dance :) Quoting: NewsBee The Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share, with other members of the colony, information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new housing locations. A waggle dance with a very short waggle run used to be characterized as a distinct (round) recruitment dance . Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch was one of the first who translated the meaning of the waggle dance. [link to en.wikipedia.org] Thank you for the link, this is very interesting. What I saw though was not figure eight, more like figures of minus sign. It felt like they are nervous... Emerald_Glow |
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Stark User ID: 64096551 United States 10/25/2014 04:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's likely they are just a little antsy as much of the country drifts into winter. Foodsources tend to become scarce, known as "dearth" and they get to acting all sprts of bizarre. Just my opinion, I do this for a living. Quoting: Stark Wow, I never heard that...Are you a beekeeper? Yup, That's what I do for a living. Equipment (hives etc) manufacture and Hive management. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 61632528 United States 10/25/2014 04:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At the end of the "bee season" (we are in a cold climate), the female worker bees kick the male drones out (they are truly useless eaters with no other purpose except to mate with the queen) to conserve honey stored for the winter. Until the drones die off, they might engage in the type of behavior you witnessed today. Just a theory. As I said, we are not experts! . |
emerald_glow (OP) User ID: 63078379 United States 10/25/2014 06:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My husband and I started keeping bees this summer. We have 2 hives, so we are in no way experts on this, but my husband has read a lot about the bees and this is what he said it could be. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 61632528 At the end of the "bee season" (we are in a cold climate), the female worker bees kick the male drones out (they are truly useless eaters with no other purpose except to mate with the queen) to conserve honey stored for the winter. Until the drones die off, they might engage in the type of behavior you witnessed today. Just a theory. As I said, we are not experts! . It's likely they are just a little antsy as much of the country drifts into winter. Foodsources tend to become scarce, known as "dearth" and they get to acting all sprts of bizarre. Just my opinion, I do this for a living. Quoting: Stark Wow, I never heard that...Are you a beekeeper? Yup, That's what I do for a living. Equipment (hives etc) manufacture and Hive management. Thank you for sharing Last Edited by emerald_glow on 10/25/2014 06:01 PM Emerald_Glow |
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