Download or read book The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees written by Karl von Frisch and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until his death in 1982, Karl von Frisch was the world's most renowned authority on bees. The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees is his masterwork - the culmination of more than fifty years of research. It describes in non-technical language what he discovered in a lifetime of study about honeybees - their methods of orientation, their sensory faculties, and their remarkable ability to communicate with one another.