Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Dancing bee's honey quality?

As you know bee%26#039;s dance, and their are workers, and %26#039;wall flowers%26#039; so to speak. I was wondering do these,


do the more diverse colonies also make higher quality honey? with that being said: would the more diverse colonies of bees make more consistent tasting honey?

Dancing bee%26#039;s honey quality?
Dansing dosint make more amount of takimg of honey 4om the area the dansing is done by the worker





A tremble dance is a dance performed by receiver honey bees of the species Apis mellifera to recruit more receiver honey bees to collect nectar from the workers.





The tremble dance was first described by Karl von Frisch in the 1920s (who was also first to describe the waggle dance), but no light was shed on its function until 1993 when Wolfgang Kirschner discovered that when performed the dance stopped nearby workers from flying to gather more nectar.





The tremble dance of the honeybee is similar to the waggle dance, but is used by a forager when the foraging bee perceives a long delay in unloading its nectar or a shortage of receiver bees, sometimes due to low numbers of receiver bees.





It may also spread the scent released during the forager%26#039;s waggle dance.








Like the waggle dance, the tremble dance is likely one of two %26quot;primary regulation mechanisms%26quot; for regulating bee colony behavior at the group level, and one of four or five observed mechanisms known to be used by honeybees to change the task allocation among worker bees.
Reply:The workers find the nectar source, return to the nest and tell their peers about their discovery by dancing.





The taste of honey depends on the bee%26#039;s food source -- clover, orange blossom, lavender, etc. -- not the diversity of the colony. In fact, bee colonies are not diverse at all. Every bee is related to the queen. All males are virtually identical, as they have no fathers, so only possess the Queen%26#039;s DNA.





Bees eat nectar. They regurgitate honey and store it, to feed their larvae, or as insurance when external food supplies run low.



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