The Language of Bees

趙慶樂

Bees can talk. But their language has no words. Bees talk with their bodies. Heres what they do.

A worker bee goes for food. Nectar is bees food. It comes from flowers. When the bee finds flowers. It eats some nectar and takes some home to feed other bees.

How can the bee tell others where it came from？ It cannot use words， so it uses its body. It dances. The dance tells the other bees which way to go. It also tells them how far.

Soon the bees are on their way. They know where the flowers are.

Answer the questions.

1. What does the word “nectar” mean in Chinese？

2. 判斷正（T）誤（F）。

① Bees use words to talk to each other.

② Bees eat nectar from flowers.

3. What does the worker bee do？

A. It finds food.

B. It talks with words.

C. It grows flowers.

D. It makes nectar.

4. A bees dance tells the other bees ____.

A. how many flowers there are

B. what the weather is like

C. how to go to the flowers

D. how good the nectar tastes