I was wondering if the answer posted above is entirely
correct.
It is true that scout bees locate and communicate
the source of quality and abundant food to other bees in the colony by means of dance as
explained in the post above. But there are two aspects of the answer which need to be
examined more closely. First the dance of the scout bee indicates source of food in
terms of general location like a patch of land having many flowers containing good
quality nectar. The dance of the scout bees is not able to indicate location of each
flower or can of soda that can provide the bees with food. The bees must go the patch of
land indicated by scout bees and then find the exact source of food in that patch.It is
important that scout bees are able to communicate location of sources of food that are
several kilometres away. It is not possible for them to indicate a location as specific
as a can of soda from a distance of more than than, say, fifty meters
away.
This brings us the second question left unexplained.
How do the scout bees locate the source of food in the first place. It It is my guess
that ones the scout bees, or other ordinary bees, are in the vicinity of an area having
suitable source of food, must employ some means to locate that source very precisely. I
really do not know how bees do it. But it will be interesting to
know.
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