Honey bees live and work as a community, and to enable the community to function as efficiently as possible with regard to food gathering, there has developed a means of spreading information about food. Individuals pass on information about the whereabouts and nature of sources of suitable food.
A bee that has found a ___1___ source of food returns to the hive and begins to make a ___2___ of anxious movements on the vertical surface of the comb. Observation shows that such movements are not random but follow a definite pattern. ___3___, sometimes a bee turns in circle first to the left and then to the right so that she directs a sideways figure-of-eight with the two circles more or less on top of each other. A ___4___ circuit of such a dance consists of two distinct movements -- two circles.
Other bees become ___5___ by the dance and gather round, from time to time ___6___ the dancer with their attennae. Experiments have shown that the ___7___ of this pattern of movement or dance is to persuade other bees to go to ___8___ the food and it is, ___9___, important that some basic information about the food source should be exchanged. A suitable number of the follower bees set off to find the food crop ___10___ a range of 25 meters of the range.
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