Symbolic communication of honeybees.

  1. A worker bee returning from a foraging trip communicates information about a food source to other workers.

  2. A round dance indicates food is near.

  3. A waggle dance indicates food is distant.

    The angle between the food source, the nest, and the sun is represented as the angle between the straight part of the dance and vertical.

    If the straight part of the dance is 30 degrees to the right of vertical, the food is 30 degrees to the right of the sun.