Yes, they can . Scientists didn't know that until the 1960s .
By observing honeybees, a German scientist named Karl Von Frisch has found something truly remarkable. Scout bees flew out of the hive to look for food, and then a scout bee flew back when it found a site with food there, and started dancing . Somehow it showed other bees where the food is, and the forager bee flew straight to the site to collect food.
Von Frisch won a Nobel prize because of this great discovery . But many scientists at that time were still skeptical .
Recently, some British scientists use a new type of radar to prove Von Frisch's theory is correct .
If the food is near the hive - about 50-60 meters away, scout bee flies around in circle. And if the site of food is farther away, it does something called waggle dance : When a scout bee flies vertical line up the side of the hive, it's telling the foragers to flight toward to the Sun, if it flies vertical down - the foragers should fly way from the Sun . And if the scout bee flies an angle to the beehive, a bee has a special internal mechanism to find out which angle should it fly, also - depending on scout bee 's speed, the slower the dance is, the farther away the food .
Reference : http://www.english-test.net/toefl/listening/A_lecture_in_biology_class.html
