4. Esch’s team videotaped the bee’s dance when it returned to the hive, and then calculated the distance which the bee communicated based on the duration of the dance. “The bee danced as if it had traveled about 70 meters (230 feet), rather than just 11 meters (36 feet),” says Esch. When some 200 bees flew from the hive, searching for food over the next two hours, about three-quarters of them approached a dry feeding station 230 feet away looking for nectar, rather the loaded feeding station close to the hive.