An ant food trail can fade if ants stop adding pheromone chemicals to it.

An ant finds a crumb and marks its route home with pheromones. Other ants follow the route to the crumb. How did they find it?

• They detected trail chemicals with their antennae
• They heard spoken directions from the ant at the nest
• They watched a waggle dance showing the crumb's location

What does the time spent in a honeybee's straight waggle run tell other bees?

• Which colour the flowers are
• How far away the flowers are
• How many bees should visit them

The same honeybee waggles for 2 seconds for one flower patch, then 1 second for another. What does the shorter run indicate?

• The second patch is closer to the hive
• The second patch is farther from the hive
• The second patch has no flowers left

Which insect can use flashes of light to find a mate?

• Ant
• Cricket
• Firefly

Which statement describes the eastern North American monarch's annual migration?

• Every butterfly completes the whole migration within a single day
• It covers thousands of miles across several generations
• It follows chemical trails left on the ground by worker ants

On a vertical comb, an upward waggle run means fly towards the sun. Which run signals the opposite flight direction, away from the sun?

• Straight down on the comb
• Straight up along the honeycomb
• Towards the entrance of the hive

An eastern monarch starts its first autumn journey south. It has never visited the winter forests. What helps it choose a direction?

• Memories of the route it followed on an earlier winter journey
• Chemical trails left on the ground by earlier butterflies
• Inherited abilities to use the sun with an internal clock