It may also spread the scent released during the forager's waggle dance.
There are two main hypotheses to explain how foragers recruit other workers -- the waggle dance or dance language theory and the odor plume theory.
Honeybees use two kinds of dances to communicatethe round dance and the waggle dance.
The consumption of ethanol by foraging bees has been shown to reduce waggle dance activity and increase occurrence of the tremble dance.
In temperate habitats, honey bee colonies routinely perform the waggle dance, but can still successfully forage when the dance is experimentally obscured.
On the straight stretch, the bee waggles with her posterior.
As females fly overhead the males waggle their heads from side to side, shake their wings and call.
They are ultimately successful and waggle the plane's wings, alerting the fighter.
