What kind of systems do bees have to maintain their well-organized society centering around the queen bee? This was a mystery for a long time. Very little was known about the communication between worker bees.

Karl von Frisch (1886-1982), a zoologist born in Austria, discovered through his patient experiments and observation, that worker bees tell each other where flowers and the source of honey, are located.

What he found is called "harvest dancing." It is performed at the comb by the bees that gathered honey and pollen in the field and returned to the nest. Frisch discovered that harvest dancing consists of round dancing and wagtail dancing. Bees tell their coworkers the distance to the flowers and its direction by dancing instead of using language. This is how bees contribute to the maintenance of their hive and the prosperity of their species. Frisch devoted more than 40 years to study all these facts.

Frisch completed his masterpiece, "The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees" in 1965. He, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1973. Ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior, was not well-focused in those days, but it has drastically developed worldwide since these three ethologists were awarded the Nobel Prize.