Adrian Wenner wrote recently:

" The dance maneuvers on the surface of the
swarm clusters and at the new site are thus merely
a SYMPTOM (not a cause) of what is happening during
swarm relocation.  Julian O'Dea hinted as much when
he termed the dance "idiothetic behaviour" in this
extended exchange --- as Rosin did recently
in the AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL (p. 98 in the February
issue). "


Julian O'Dea: This discussion has been going
on for a long time on Bee-L. I made the suggestion
that the bee dance "language" is really only
"idiothetic behaviour" as long ago as 1996, a
point picked up by the following site:

http://www.dromo.com/fusionanomaly/bees.html


Canberra, Australia