“…4 In contrast to von Frisch's more circumscribed account of the "round dance" and the "waggle dance" of bees, Maeterlinck's informal understanding of bee language emphasises the limitlessness of apian communication, frequently marvelling at the 3 Joyce references Maeterlinck in Stephen Hero, which he began writing in early 1904, see (Joyce [1944(Joyce [ ] 1969. In Ulysses, Stephen Daedalus quotes Maeterlinck before paraphrasing his ideas: 'We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves', see (Joyce [1922(Joyce [ ] 1986 ways in which their gestures 'elude comprehension' (Maeterlinck [1901(Maeterlinck [ ] 1995. With this context in mind, Bloom's impression of bees in Ulysses as occupying a unique position 'beyond the art of man' appears to correspond to a particular moment in the history of apiculture, in which the language of bees was newly recognised, but not yet 'caged' within scientific parameters.…”