Show Kepe Keeping Yn g Up U p Wh 0 LI Sc n e eC O C klene Service Service nice Language of Bees Discovered to Be Scented Dancing How They Tell Where Honey Can Be De Obtained r UrN DAVIs y- y D Or WATSON VATSON DAVIS Washington Bees Bees have a language of scented dancing By means of it a scout bee that has made a rich discovery discovery discovery ery can send his fellow workers workers work work- ers erl out after honey with almost almost almost al al- most as much dispatch as police are rushed to points of need by radio calls Scientists used to think that bees located flowers by color or scent cent This is la partially true But in an exhaustive study of the bee habits Prof K It Von Frlich Frisch of Munich found that bees bee communicate with one another by a tran strange sort ort of dance performed within the hive In this wa way they thel tell ten where honey can be b. obtained most eull easily Often it will take hour hours and some sometimes times da days for a good oad feeding place feeding place to be b. discovered But when one bee ben has haa found the honey hone many perhaps per hops haps several leveral hundred will appear in a very ver short time And the they all aD come coma from the same ame hive as a the discoverer The They Talk b by Dancing Professor Von Frisch FrIch set et out to discover the language or mode of communication of the bees beel Heres Here's what he found If a new nw kind of tower flower begins to bloom It Is 11 discovered by a scout cout bee lie He loads load up with honey and Wes flies home In Ia Inthe Inthe the hive be he reports the discovery b by a queer sort ort of dance turning round and aneS round in a circle with queer tripping little steps tp once one to the right once one to the left very vi vigorously vig often otten for a minute on the same am spot poL Other bees be crowd around with high Interest Int eL They Thy rush out of the hive and soon oon can be found at the hon honey source The Th dance Is II a signal that hone honey has bas been ben found The bee carries upon up on DB him the scent cent of the Gower flower containing containing con con- the nectar The Th other bees beel noting DOtIn this thI odor search learch for It as II they fly fay out of the hive hIv in all aU cUrc Moreover the discovering bee returns to the good honey honel source and broadcasts another odor created created creat create ed b by a scent cent organ oran on its it abdomen that also allo guides suld the other workers worker |