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?Go to another hive and try to convince them to go to your desired siteKeep voting for your site no matter whatStop dancing for that site.Go to that site anyway and start your own hive

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Restating the scenario and options to ensure clarity: You are a scout bee in a swarm where your site did not receive a vote from the other bees. The choices are:
- Go to another hive and try to convince them to go to your desired site
- Keep voting for your site no matter what
- Stop dancing for that site.
- Go to that site anyway and start your own hive

Option 1: 'Go to another hive and try to convince them to go to your desired site'
This option involves attempting to persuade a different hive about your preferred site. While this could be seen as networking, in the standard waggle-dance communication model, recruitment signals are intended to recruit within the same swarm. Moving to another hive to push your site would likely spread misinformation or reduce cohesion, and it doesn’t address the lack of support within your current swarm. Therefore, this path is unlikely to be effective or align with typical colony dynamics.

Option 2: 'Keep voting for your site no matter what'
If the majority of the swarm has not accepted your site, persisting in promoting it without support wastes energy and can undermine group coordination. Bees rely on consensus signals to minimize colony-level risk. Continuing to “vote” for a rejected site ignores the collective decision and tends to destabilize foraging efficiency, making this option impractical and costly without changing others’ minds.

Option 3: 'Stop dancing for that site.'
This choice directly reduces the recruitment signal for your site. In waggle-dance communication, dancers recruit recruits to specific sites; if you stop dancing for a site, you stop luring other foragers to that site, which preserves energy and avoids pulling the colony toward a non-supported option. It aligns with efficient use of signals and social learning dynamics within the swarm, and prevents wasting resources chasing a rejected option.

Option 4: 'Go to that site anyway and start your own hive'
Starting a new hive or foray would entail leaving the original swarm and establishing a new colony, which is a high-risk, high-cost strategy for a single scout. In the context of swarm foraging and communication, this bypasses the colony’s collective decision-making and introduces substantial survival risks. It is not a typical or practical response to a non-consensus outcome.

Putting these evaluations together, the reasoning supports option 3 as the strategy that preserves energy and aligns with the swarm’s communication dynamics, while the other options either mismanage recruitment, waste resources, or introduce unnecessary risks.

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?Go to another hive and try to convince them to go to your desired siteKeep voting for your site no matter whatStop dancing for that site.Go to that site anyway and start your own hive

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