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The shaking dance or signal is yet another method of communication performed by foraging worker bees and helps foragers increase the number of bees in a colony engaged in foraging during a rise in nectar supply or a high demand for food or both (Seeley 1995). A returning honey bee forager will perform this dance often in conjunction with the waggle dance as a way to entice resting bees to begin foraging, often following prolonged successful foraging or a period of nectar dearth. A honey bee transmitting this signal will literally shake a number of different bees in the hive (approximately 1 to 20 bees per minute) by vibrating her whole body in a dorso‐ventral direction briefly for one to two seconds while holding the other bee tightly in her grasp (Seeley 1995). In contrast to the waggle dance enacted principally on the vertical hive comb near the colony entrance, the shaking signal is performed throughout the hive in an effort to persuade non‐foraging bees involved in other hive activities to switch tasks and begin foraging.

Although the dancing behaviors of honey bees are most familiar, several other physical styles of communication are also used by this social insect to help convey messages both inside and outside of the colony (Winston 1987; Seeley 2010).