Carla continuing with her bees

Carla  has found a lovely poem by Norman Rowland Gale that describes bees beautifully.

You voluble, velvety fellows

That play on your flying and musical cellos

All golden girdled you serenade clover

Each artist in bass but a bibulous rover

Your passionate powdery pastoral bandits

Who gave you your roaming 

Rollicking mandate

Come out of my foxglove;

Come out of my roses

You bees with the plushy plausible noses.

Carla has been looking at the bees waggle dance. The bees do this dance within the hive to show the other foragers where the best food is located. They do a short zigzag when food is near and a longer one for further away. This dance was first decoded by the Austrian Scientist Karl con Frisch. He was awarded a Nobel prize in 1973 for this discovery.