Question: how do honeybees communicate with each other?

Roberto answered on 6 Nov 2018:

Hi.
Honeybees can communicate in different ways with their nestmate. Of course, they do not use words to do so, but they can still use sounds, vibrations, particular “dances” pattern and chemical signals.
For example, the queen bee does normally communicate with her worker bees using her pheromones, a particular chemical scent that can have very different meanings: one of the most common is “I am here with you, and everything is alright in my hive”.
Worker bees can communicate each other using vibration and specific dance pattern, as the case of the so-called waggle dance by which a scout bee can communicate her nestmate the location and the distance of a nectar source she visited before.
Again, honeybees can also use their antennas to communicate. They can touch a mate’s antenna and gently poke on them to let her know she is ready to receive the nectar from her (worker honeybees are female bees).
Finally, you can have worker bees looking for some other mates to help her to scratch her back (I am not joking), she is looking for someone to groom her, and normally this happened when a bees start to waggle in front of a nest mate in a specific way.
So, as you can see there are lots of different ways by which the honeybees can communicate with each other.
Hope I have stimulated some more curiosity about honeybees.
All the best