Honeybee is a social insect, carrying on social life, and there are all kinds of information exchange among individuals in the colony, like human beings. Worker bees mainly transmit information through honeybee dance, vocalization and honeybee pheromone.
Bee dance is a kind of body language in which bees use body movements of different forms and frequencies to transmit certain information. At present, the most in-depth study of bee dance is round dance and wagging tail dance. The round dance means that the dancers find the honey source within 100 meters from the nest and tell their companions to go out to collect it. Wagging the tail means that the dancers find the honey source 100 meters away from the nest.
In addition, honeybee dances found include new moon dances, the "whoop dance" of calling companions, as well as alarm dances, cleaning dances, massage dances, back and belly shaking dances, etc.
A lot of information between honeybees is transmitted by chemical substances. In addition to the above-mentioned ways, many information between honeybees is transmitted by chemical substances. These substances that can perform information transmission among the same kind are called pheromones. The pheromones of honeybees mainly include queen pheromones, worker pheromones, drone pheromones and larva pheromones.
