Why does the honeybee dance?

When a honeybee finds a big garden of flowers brimming with honey, how does it let its friends know about it? It hurries back to the hive, and does a little dance!Honey bees communicate with each other by dancing. The purpose of the dance is to alert other bees where nectar and pollen are located. The dance explains direction and distance to  The honey bee performs two types of dances…the round dance and the waggle dance. The round dance is performed for food sources close to the colony and the waggle dance used for food sources that are far Other bees attending these dances somehow-no one knows exactly how- learn the distance, direction, and odour of the flower patch. Once they have this information, they too fly directly to the flower patch in search of pollen and nectar