On a summer morning at 6 am, a honey bee located a source of nectar in the same direction as the rising sun. It went back to the hive hive and performed waggle dance which lasted for several hours. What will be the direction of waggle dance at 6 pm? (show diagrammatically) please explain in detail this particular concept and pattern of waggle dance.
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Answer: Direction of waggle dance will be in downward direction at 6 pm.
Step-by-step explanation:
The waggle dance tells the watching bees two things about a flower patch’s location: the distance and the direction away from the hive.
Bees communicate in their hives via waggle dance, primarily two most important aspects are communicated : 1) Direction 2) Distance
1) Direction : Bees know which way is up and which way is down inside their hive, and they use this to show direction. Bees dance with the waggle run at a specific angle away from straight up. Outside the hive, bees look at the position of the sun, and fly at the same angle away from the sun.If the sun were in a different position, the angle would stay the same, but the direction to the correct flower patch would be different.
2) Distance : The dancing bee waggles back and forth as she moves forward in a straight line, then circles around to repeat the dance. The length of the middle line, called the waggle run, shows roughly how far it is to the flower patch.
Hence, A food source located due east will have honey bee dance approximately straight up in the morning (because the sun rises in the east), but will have honey bee dance approximately straight down in the late afternoon (because the sun sets in the west).