One of the jobs / jobs in the world of the bee is "guide", then what does? How do bees find flowers feed search on such a vast area compared to their body size? How do they find their way back to the nest without getting lost?
How do they tell other bees about the direction of interest? When we try to answer various questions, we will arrive at a truly amazing fact.
As already found the source of interest, then the next task of this guide is the bees returned to the nest and tell other bees about the location where he found a collection of flowers such. Then, he would let the other bees that tasted a little nectar from flowers he had collected to inform them about the quality of the nectar.
Then, the main task is to explain the direction toward the source of interest. He did this with a very unique way, namely by dancing. Guide bee began to dance in the middle of the nest with her body shaking. Hard to believe, but movements in this dance to other bees information about the location of the source of interest.
For example, if a straight line dancing at the top of the nest, then the appropriate food source leads to the sun. If the interest is in the opposite direction, the bees will make a line in that direction. If the bees dance to the right, then this indicates that the source of interest is directly ninety degrees to the right.
But there is one question, explain the direction of the bees on the position of the sun, when the position of the sun is constantly changing. Every four minutes the sun moved one degree to the west, the factors that may be supposed bees ignored in this determination.
However, observations show that these bees also take into account the movement of the sun. When the bee guides tell the location of interest, in every four minutes, they let the angle is also increased by one degree to the west. Thanks to the calculation of this incredible, the bee is never lost.
Bee guide not only shows the direction of interest, but also the distance to the venue. Old time dances and the amount of vibration to give directions to other bees about this distance accurately. They brought supplies of food juices are just enough for this distance, and then begin the journey.
Remarkable behavior of the bees have been tested in a study in California. In this study, three containers of sugar water placed in three different places. A moment later, the bees guide to find the food source.
Bees come to guide the first container is marked points; who came second container is marked with lines, and who came third container marked with a cross. A few minutes later, the bees in the nest was watched carefully this guide the bees.
The scientists then gave the dot in the bees that guides bees observed marked point, and so, they also provide other bees the same sign to that of the bees they observe guide. A few minutes later, the bees come to the point marked the first container, which arrived at the line marked the second container and marked with a cross in the third container.
Thus, it is evident that the bees in the hive to find the direction on the basis of information previously been submitted by bees guide. Great system of organization and perfect!
