Are you sure? Something happens between experience and reaction. At some level the bee 'realises' that fanning the 'come home' scent is a good idea, and it goes off to do it.
What about the bee that had a bad experience at a feeding site, returns home, sees a waggle dance promoting the dangerous site, and then 'decides' to stop the waggle dance?
There is the dorso-ventral abdominal vibration signal. The right response is to 'say' OK, fine, I accept the signal by straightening out and holding the wings stiff down the back. In a video in the communications talk in the local association area you can see a bee looking irritated and doing a spot of self-grooming. Another bee comes up to it and does the dorso-ventral abdominal vibration thingie. The receiving bee was 'thinking' about asking for grooming as you can see it do not the right response but an inappropriate one, where it 'submits' to grooming by spreading its wings out and curling down the adbomen tip. And the bee doing the dorso-ventral shaking realises the bee didn't understand and does it again.
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