Question

On a summer morning at 6am, a honey bee located in a nectar source in the same direction asd the rising sun. It went back to the hive and performed a wiggly dance which lasted for several hours. What will be the direction of the wiggly dance at 6 pm?
(A)
(B)

(C)

(D)

Answer 1

Hint: The top (roof) of a bee hive is used as the location of the sun. The direction relative to the top of the hive of which the waggle run is done is the direction of the food source relative to the sun. In the morning, since the food source is in the direction of the sun, the waggle dance will be in the direction of the top (roof) of the beehive.

Complete Step-by-Step Solution:
In general, when a bee locates the source of a quality nectar in a flower at a particular location, the bee tries to communicate the location to other bees in the hive. To do this, the bee performs a waggle dance.
The waggle dance is a communication technique of which a bee reports the location of a food source to other bees.
The direction of a food source is reported relative to the sun. When a bee sees the food source outside the hive, it recognizes the direction relative to the sun. When the bee performs the waggle dance inside the hive, it uses the top or roof of the hive as the location of the sun, then performs the waggle run at an angle to the top as the sun is to the source.
In our question, at 6 am, the source is in the direction of the sun, the waggle run will be done by the bee in the direction of the roof of the hive, but at 6pm (12 hours later) the sun must be in the exact opposite direction, hence, the bee switches direction, and must now perform the run in the downward direction (floor of the hive).
Hence the correct option is C

Note: To avoid confusions, when the bee does the waggle run, it returns back to his initial position to repeat the dance by circulating alternatively using its left and right. Hence, this is the reason for the circular path of the diagram. The waggle run is the wiggly line at the centre of the entire shape.