Excellent bee dancing files

[Finsky]

Here is explanation, how bees tell the distance of food source.
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/apiculture/PDF%20files/1.11.pdf

Here is excellent presentation how it happens. First take from map a continent where you are: Africa ...Europe.
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/apiculture/Dance_tutorial.html

Here is report that bees may fly to distance of  9 kilometres and even to 13 km.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~taplab/pdf/rbeeimpr2000.pdf
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[qa33010]

Thanks Finsky!!

    Some good info!

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[Diver]

I wonder? Do the scout bees do some form of dance to lead a swarm to a new hive or is it a case of follow the leader. Ive never noticed been to busy scepping the swarm I guess.

What are your thoughts on this.

[Jerrymac]

Yes I believe they do the dance for new home location. I watched a swarm on the side of a wall. There would be a bee every now and then that would be moving through a group wiggling around.

[Michael Bush]

Yes scout bees do come back from looking for new homes and do a waggle dance on the surface of the swarm cluster.

[Dick Allen]

My understandng is that individual scout bees dance to different locations and, in the end, bees choose one over all the rest.