Austrian biologist Frish pointed out that a large number of worker bees would send "reconnaissance bees" to look for honey sources before leaving their nests to collect honey. Once these "scouts" find favorable honey-collecting sites or new high-quality honey-source plants, they will become honey-collecting bees, fly back to the hive, dance in circles or figure-eight dances to point out the location of food, express the distance between the hive and the honey source with the speed of dance, and inform the types of food with the smell of pollen attached to their bodies. Tell everyone to gather honey together. When reconnaissance bees find honey sources within 0/00 meters of the hive/kloc-,they will report back to the hive. In addition to leaving tracking information, they will alternately turn left or right in small circles and crawl in a "round dance" way.
If the honey source is 0/00 meters away from the hive/kloc-,the scout bees will change their dancing posture and take the shape of ∞, so it is also called "figure-eight dance" or "wagging tail dance". If all the crawling routes are connected, the longer the straight crawling time means the farther away from the honey source. The duration of straight crawling is 1 s, which means that the distance from the honey source is about 500 meters. If it lasts for 2 seconds, it will be about l000 meters.
The distance between the honey source and the hive is directly related to the speed of dance movements. The farther you are, the slower you turn and the slower you move. The dancing action of bees can not only report the distance between nectar and nest, but also indicate the direction of nectar. If bees dance with their heads held high, it means: "fly in the direction of the sun and you will find pollen." On the contrary, it means: "You can find food where your back is to the sun."