Drunk Bees?

[philinacoma]

Hey,

I was standing there this morning watching the bees leave on their foraging journeys and began to wonder. When the bees fly out, they tend to fly in a sinusoidal path. Is this the bees measuring distance? Does each of these left-right motions equate to one gyration in the wiggle dance?

My first thought had been that they were just making adjustments to their flight path, or drunk  ;), but then I thought of the above.

Phil

[doak]

Probably setting their directional finders. Orienting their self with the Sun in relation to their foraging source. They do do that you know. :)doak

[lenape13]

Or perhaps they have converted some of the honey into mead.  After all, do we REALLY know what they do in the hive after dark?   :roll: 8-) :-D

[philinacoma]

All the more reason to rob them!  :-D