came to it, then a short while later the dish was once again swarmed with bees. He concluded from this that the scout bees must communicate the information regarding the food to the worker bees when returning to the hive. In order to try and understand how the bees communicated, Karl von Frisch and his colleagues built a transparent bee hive. They marked the scout bees with red dye on the thorax, and observed that when the scout bees returned to the hive it began to do a series of "dances" that where immediately followed by many worker honeybees swarming to the food source. Karl von Frisch concluded from this that this "dance" which he observed was the form of communication between the honeybees.
             After much analysis and experimentation, Karl von Frisch was able to dissect and begin to understand the different components and purposes of the honeybee's dance. He observed that there were two different dances; a round dance, and a waggle dance.
             He found that the round dance was used if the food was within 50 meters of the hive. The round dance consists of the scout honeybee moving in small circles and reversing direction every few revolutions . After completing the dance, the worker honeybees that observed the dance leave the hive to forage for the designated food. From numerous trials, Karl von Frisch showed that the round dance does not convey direction or specific distance, but rather is used to quickly alert the hive that there is food close by.
             The waggle dance is more complex, and is used when the food is located over 50 meters from the hive. The waggle dance is made up of two distinct parts, a straight run, and round turns . First the scout dances in a straight line while waggling its body very vigorously. Then the scout honeybee turns in one direction and makes a circular turn back to the start position. The straight run is then repeated, but this time the scout makes the circular turn in...