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BIO Amazing honeybees The survival of a bee colony depends on the ability of bee scouts to locate food and to convey that information to the hive. After finding a promising food source, a honeybee scout returns to the hive and uses a waggle dance to tell its worker sisters the direction and distance to the food.
Recall that light coming directly from the Sun is unpolarized. Bees use the direction of the Sun as a reference for their travel. In the hive, the scout bee's waggle dance is in the shape of a flat figure eight (Figure 25.28). The upward direction in the vertical hive represents the direction toward the Sun. The middle line of the scout’s figure eight points in the direction of the food relative to the direction of the Sun. I hus a
If the direction of the middle line of the scout's waggle dance figure eight points
a. Where the light is
b. Where the light is
c. Where the light is
d. Where the light is
e. Where the light is
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