The waggle dance of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) foragers communicates to nest mates the location of a profitable food source. Tactile and acoustic signals appear to play a role in waggle-dance communication, but we still have much to learn about the mechanisms by which waggle dancers attract and convey information to potential recruits (Dyer, 2002). We investigated whether waggle dancers produce a volatile chemical signal using Solid Phase Micro Extraction (SPME) sampling and a gas chromatograph coupled to a mass spectrometer (GC/MS). We found four compounds that were present in much higher amounts on waggle-dancing foragers than non-dancing foragers returning from the same unscented food source. The production of non-floral volatile compounds by waggle-dancing honey bees suggests that olfaction may play an important role in attracting and/or conveying dance information to potential recruits.