Solid lines indic. Dotted lines indic. He found a negative curvilinear relationship. Wing vibrations produce the sound. G. Sickle Dance 1.
Most bees perform a sickle dance to indicate intermediate distances.
Represents a transition fm. H. Foragers Do not Communicate Absolute distance 1. Although the properties of the waggle dance are a function of distance, the dance does not, strictly speaking, communicate distance. What seems to be communicated is the amount of work required to reach a food source. In attempting to determine if bees ha a word for up or down VonFrisch noticed that bees flying up a hill, or flying upwind, overestimated the distance.