A honeybee is performing the waggle dance in the center of this photo to communicate the location of a rich nectar source to its nestmates. Heather Broccard-Bell, CC BY-ND The Greek historian ...

Fascinating and mesmerizing, honey bees talk to one another by dancing, but it doesn’t always work, according to a new study from Virginia Tech. Known as the “waggle” dance, the duration and direction ...

Booty-shaking worker bees guide their fellow workers to pollen by a form of communication known as "waggle dancing" — performing steps that map out where food is located and how far it is from the ...

The tango, the cha-cha and the waltz all pale in comparison to the waggle dance performed by honeybees that tells other bees the direction and distance to find plants. Computer science students at BYU ...

Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists call eusocial, which means every bee has a job to do. This could be ...

The honeybee waggle dance has long been lauded as one of the planet's most complex animal communication systems, second only to human language in terms of its ability to transmit diverse information ...

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Move over, Queen Bey, these pollinators may have you bee-t. Honey bees have a signature “waggle dance” — and researchers have discovered how the insects learn it. A new study published in the journal ...

May 3, 2006 -- -- Finding a new home can be a difficult process, but any family wanting to do so intelligently -- without trying to kill each other -- might benefit by learning how to do the waggle ...

When a honey bee returns to the nest after foraging for food, it breaks into dance. Moving in a figure-eight shape while shaking its abdomen helps the bee communicate to others how far away the ...

Scarlett Howard receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and has previously received funding from Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship, RMIT University, ...