Since all the bees who lives in a hive together share their food, it is important for them to get all the food that can be found. So when foraging bees return to the hive, they get other bees from the hive to gather nectar from good flower. They do this by performing dances on the combs of the hive.
The bees around the dancing bees become excited and start to follow behind a dancer and imitate her movements. Then, they leave the hive and --- without the dancing bee to lead them --- fly directly to the food The dancing bees are able to tell other bees, by these dances, the direction and the location of the food nearby.
On the dancing bees is the order of the nectar, which tells the other bees which flowers to look for. If the returning bees do a wagging dance, it means that the food is more than one hundred meters away.
During this dance, the bee goes in a straight direction for a short run, and this tells the other bees in which direction to look for the food. If the straight run point directly upward, the feeding place is forward the sun; the feeding place is near. The greater the distance, the slower the dance is.
When the amount of food left at the source is very little, the returning bee does not do a dance, so other bees do not go there looking for food.
The story tells us about _________.
The dancing of bees
The communication of bees
The team work of bees
The sources of food