What term describes the dance performed by honeybees to communicate the location of food sources?

The term that describes the dance performed by honeybees to communicate the location of food sources is the waggle dance. This intricate behavior is a form of communication used by forager bees to convey both the distance and direction of food sources to other members of the hive. During the waggle dance, the bee waggles its body while moving in a figure-eight pattern, with the angle of the waggle run indicating the direction of the food source relative to the sun. The duration of the waggle portion of the dance conveys the distance to the food, with longer waggles signaling further distances.

The round dance, on the other hand, is typically used when food is close to the hive, and it communicates less specific information about distance and direction. The other choices, such as check dance and communicative dance, do not correspond to recognized terms in bee behavior and do not accurately describe the well-studied dance used for foraging communication.