Science Fiction:
Ancestors to modern honeybees most likely performed excitatory movements to encourage other nestmates to forage. These excitatory movements include shaking, zig-zagging, buzzing and crashing into nestmates. Similar behavior is observed in other Hymenoptera including stingless bees, wasps, bumblebees and ants.[11] The waggle dance is thought to have evolved to aid in communicating information about a new nest site, rather than spatial information about foraging sites.[11]
Real Science:
Honey bees learn and communicate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_learning_and_communicationInterestingly, Menzel found that most of the cells he studied had secondary sensitivities that corresponded to wavelength regions at which the other two receptor types were maximally active.[6] He used spectral efficiency experiments to show that such corresponding wavelength receptivity is the result of electric coupling.[6]
Tremble dance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremble_danceGrooming dance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooming_danceKarl Priest the Insect man
http://www.insectman.usKarl (The Insect Man) Priest Play List
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2017A89796441B37Thank God for Insects Which Drive Evolutionists Buggy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1bq8AmANBkLife Science Prize
http://www.lifescienceprize.orgJohn
1:10 "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not."
Scientists have, for the first time, successfully communicated with honeybees in their own language! Scientists have for some time known how to interpret many of the elements of the bees' so-called "waggle dance." This dance is used by scouts to communicate the location of food sources to the food gatherers in the hive.
A couple decades ago, researchers decided to see if they could confirm their understanding of bee communication. But how do you talk to a bee and get confirmation that she understood what you said? Scientists decided that the only way to do this was to build a robot bee through which they could communicate. The first attempts at building a robot bee acceptable to real bees did not work well. Early models were viciously attacked.
Scientists finally perfected a computer-controlled robot bee that real honeybees accepted. These scientists describe honeybee language as elegant and precise. Yet they found they had learned enough bee language to communicate successfully a food source and its location to real bees. They also discovered that they have much more to learn about bee language. As a result, it may someday be possible for farmers to direct bees to crops that need pollination.
Just as bees can best understand other bees, we humans can best understand other humans. That explains why, when God our Creator wished to communicate with us, He became a human being. That human, Jesus Christ, taught us about God; and He also made peace with God for us, making possible the forgiveness of our sins.
Prayer:
I thank You, Lord, that You became a human being so that I might have my sins forgiven. I also thank You that in becoming human, You helped us understand our Creator's loving intentions toward us. Help me to communicate this to others. Amen.
Notes:
Weiss, Rick. 1989. "New dancer in the hive." Science News, v. 136, Oct. p. 282.
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