a. Honey bee forager collecting nectar from a borage flower. On returning to the colony it can
use the waggle dance to tell its nestmates the location of the flower patch it has just visited.
b. A forager bee that has returned to the colony is making a waggle dance (centre). The
dance has a figure-of-8 shape. Information is transmitted to a few dance followers (lower).
c. Karl von Frisch, dressed in lederhosen, observes worker bees collecting syrup at a feeder.
d. A paint-marked worker bee collecting syrup from a feeder.