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The females work themselves to death, wearing their wings to rags on trips to & from flowers. The only pleasure they seem to get is when, as young adults, they care for the baby bees, nursing them tenderly and feeding them golden pollen.
Bees, by & large, lead sad lives. Most young queens are killed by the reigning queen before they reach maturity. All the mature drones (males) are killed or starved by the workers (sterile females) before winter comes. Most drones die celibate; only one in thousands manages to mate with a virgin...
The dance has meaning, too. If the scout bee dances on the same spot, whirling first to the right, then to the left, it is telling the other bees that a honey source lies close to the hive. As they swarm out eagerly to look for it, the scout bee...
Wags for Distance. To tell about sources 100 meters or more from the hive, the scout bee does another dance. It wags its abdomen from side to side, runs forward a few steps, turns around, runs forward and wags again. The more rapid the turning and wagging, the closer the...
The scout bee also points out the direction. On its way back from the honey-find, it has noted (probably by means of apparatus built into its compound eyes) the direction in which the light of the sky is polarized.* This tells the position of the sun even when the...