G.P. Painkra*
Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, College of Agriculture and Research Station,
Shankargarh- 497118, Distt-Balrampur- Ramanujganj (C.G.) India
Email: gppainkrarmd@gmail.com
Received-20.01.2025, Revised-10.02.2025, Accepted-25.02.2025
Abstract: Foraging behavior is the behavior of honey bees it consists of several behavioral components that include search of food, identification and memorization of food source location, carrying and storing of food and interaction and communication. During the foraging task, honey bees of the same colony share information and communicate each other through a typical dance called waggle dance or tail wagging dance ( food source more than 100 meters from the hive) and round dance ( food source within about 100 meter away from the hive) of honey bees that looks like the numerical figure eight. This waggle dance was first translated by Karl Von Frisch and won the Noble prize in 1973 for his incredible effort toward investigating the sensory perception in honey bee.
Keywords: Foraging behavior, Honey bees, Apis mellifera, Apis dorsata, Apis cerana indica, Apis florea, Trigona
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