Bee communications

Science News reported an interesting fact about how bees communicate the location of a potential nesting site. Each bee that has found a potential location will "dance" a certain dance that communicates the location. Basically it is (1) Indicate the direction by flying an oval in that direction using the sun as a reference. (2) The length of the oval (like a holding pattern leg length) indicates the distance to the site and (3) a waggle dance is danced and the frenziedness of the dance indicates the bees zeal for this spot. So a ho-hum site gets a boring dance, but a great site gets a star performance. -- Interesting