Question

Describe Round dance and Explain.

Answer 1

Round dance is a term used to describe the communicative behaviour of a foraging honey bee (Apis mellifera), in which she moves on the comb in close circles, alternating right and then left. The round dance indicates that the forager has located a profitable food source close to the hive.

Answer 2

Information on Round dance:-

• 1. Communication by dance in honey be was observed by Karl Von Frish.

• 2. He discovered communication in bees.

• 3. Round dance indicates that the food source is about less than 75m from a hive.

• 4. Also according to this the direction of food source can be Identified.

• 5. Identification is done with the help of smell of flowers which is present on the body of a scout honey bee.

• 6. He also shared Nobel prize in medicine in 1973 with N. Tibbgergen and K. Lorenz for this discovery.