Hula dancing ?

[Mikey N.C.]

Was at a fellow beeks , the beard below has a hole (bee hole) and some bees were landing on beard next to hole and doing a really quick tail shake.

[Perry]

Waggle dance.

[Mikey N.C.]

Why didn't know ?

[Jen]

The waggle dance means that those bees that are waggling... have come back to the hive and they are telling other forager bees that they have found a good source of nectar/pollen, then they take foragers to that source. It's so cool watching the waggle dance.

[Mikey N.C.]

Today I noticed the samething at both of my hives , do y'all think it's a possible flow as far  as the waggle or can it also be water , pollen ?

[neillsayers]

Mikey,

I think they use the waggle dance to indicate any kind of valuable resource. When bees swarm the scouts use it to indicate potential nesting sites. I'm pretty sure that goes for nectar, water, pollen, and honeydew.

[LazyBkpr]

It is very depressing to spy a thread called Hulu dancing only to find it has to do with bees!!!     I suppose on a BEE forum that should be expected though....   

   As already stated, the dance is used to indicate direction to a resource they are currently in need of.. be it a home, or a source of nectar/pollen.

[riverbee]

lol hula dancing i love it!

waggle dance.........
as described by dr. tom seely in his book 'wisdom of the hive', page 36;

"2.5 Communication about Food Sources
When a worker bee discovers a rich source of pollen or nectar, she is able to recruit nestmates to it and thereby strengthen her colony's exploitation of this desirable feeding site.  The principle mechanism of this recruitment communication is the waggle dance, a unique behavior in which a bee, deep inside her colony's hive, performs a miniaturized reenactment of her recent journey to a patch of flowers.  Bees following the dance learn the distance to the patch, the direction it lies in, and the odor of the flowers, and can translate this information into a flight to the specified patch.  Thus a waggle dance is a truly symbolic message, one which is separated in time and space from both the actions on which it is based and the behaviors it will guide."


there is more to this chapter, just wanted to share the beginning paragraph about the waggle dance being associated with nectar and pollen sources. 
neill is correct.....this dance extends to water and nest site locations........as he described 'valuable resource'!

[vvand111]

Lazy that is exactly what my sales guys tell me with their expense reports

[Wandering Man]

I was at a Pelikan Fountain pen event last week (I'm a fountain pen nerd), and was sitting next to a 21 year old biology student who plans to graduate in June.

I mentioned my beekeeping hobby, and he began to lecture to the table about the "Wiggle" dance, asserting to everyone that wiggle is a scientific term.

... So close!

It is unusual to find young adults interested in fountain pens, and I like to encourage folks to use them, so I didn't advise him that he might not be quite ready to graduate, after all.

[riverbee]

love fountain pens wm...........
have a collection of them, enjoyable to write with the old fashioned way
have some pretty old ones my grandmother gave to me, and others. 

sorry off topic, but i did see some 'hula dancing' last weekend..........maybe doing a waggle dance at the beekeeper, here she comes, there she is! maybe they were just happy i wasn't butting into the 'last party'....
probably won't see for another season. so enjoyable to watch. very last of blooms here, and so much rain. my bees are already packing the 2nd deep for winter stores. 

[LazyBkpr]

sorry off topic, but i did see some 'hula dancing' last weekend....

  Really? So.... you going to show off the new hardware in action?