Question at position 15 You are a scout bee in a swarm whose site was not voted on by the other bees, what do you do?Stop dancing for that site.Go to another hive and try to convince them to go to your desired siteKeep voting for your site no matter whatGo to that site anyway and start your own hive

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First, restate the scenario and the options clearly to ensure understanding of the question.
Question: You are a scout bee in a swarm whose site was not voted on by the other bees, what do you do?
Answer choices: 1) Stop dancing for that site. 2) Go to another hive and try to convince them to go to your desired site. 3) Keep voting for your site no matter what. 4) Go to that site anyway and start your own hive.

Now, evaluate each option in turn, drawing on typical scout bee behavior and decision-making processes.
Option 1: Stop dancing for that site. This is the correct reasoning because if the broader swarm did not vote in favor of the site, there is no collective commitment to that location. In the waggle dance system, a scout stops promoting a site when it lacks support, effectively withdrawing the recruitment signal so other bees aren’t misled. This aligns with the principle that recruitment efforts should reflect social endorsement rather than individual persistence.

Option 2: Go to another hive and try to convince them to go to your desired site. While proactively sharing information with other hives can occur in some contexts, the prompt specifies that the site was not voted on by the other bees in the swarm. Attempting to persuade different hives without first achieving any consensus within the current swarm would not align with the established social cue for liquidation of effort on an unvoted site, making this choice less accurate as the recommended action in this scenario.

Option 3: Keep voting for your site no matter what. This would imply continuing to push the site despite a lack of group support. In a swarm, individual recruitment signals are typically dampened when there is no consensus. Persistently promoting an unvoted site would be inefficient and could confuse other bees, so this is not the appropriate response.

Option 4: Go to that site anyway and start your own hive. Initiating a separate hive at the same site contradicts the swarm’s collective decision-making process and would likely fragment the group. Since the site wasn’t endorsed by the swarm, establishing a new hive at that location isn’t a typical or advantageous course of action.

In summary, the most suitable action is to withdraw recruitment for the unvoted site by stopping the waggle dance associated with it, allowing the swarm to reallocate its search effort toward sites with broader support. The other options either misread the social signaling dynamics of recruitment, propose actions that would undermine group coordination, or describe behaviors that depart from standard collective decision-making in swarms.

Question at position 15 You are a scout bee in a swarm whose site was not voted on by the other bees, what do you do?Stop dancing for that site.Go to another hive and try to convince them to go to your desired siteKeep voting for your site no matter whatGo to that site anyway and start your own hive

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