A honeybee informs her nestmates of the location of a flower she has visited by a unique behavior calleda “waggle dance.” On a vertical comb, the direction of the waggle run relative to gravity indicates thedirection to the food source relative to the sun in the field, and the duration of the waggle run indicatesthe distance to the food source. To determine the detailed biological features of the waggle dance, weobserved worker honeybee behavior in the field. Video analysis showed that the bee does not dance in asingle or random place in the hive but waggled several times in one place and then several times in another.It also showed that the information of the waggle dance contains a substantial margin of error. Angleand duration of waggle runs varied from run to run, with the range of ±15° and ±15%, respectively, evenin a series of waggle dances of a single individual. We also found that most dance followers that listento the waggle dance left the dancer after one or two sessions of listening.
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