Анализ особенностей полета пчелы приведен в книгах Karl von Frisch, The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees, translated from the German by L. Chadwick (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1967); George F. Oster and Edward O. Wilson, Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1978).