Honey bees don’t just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance ...

So, Tan and colleagues put the audience effect to the test by using an aspirator to remove spectator bees while a bee was ...

Honey bees don’t deliver perfect directions unless someone’s watching closely. When their audience shrinks, their famous ...

When it comes to animal communication, honey bees may have one of the most interesting forms yet. When a honey bee returns to the hive with knowledge of a premier food source, it will perform what is ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...

Bees change their waggle dance based on who’s watching, showing that hive communication is more interactive than scientists thought.

When honey bees find a good source of food, they return to their hive and perform a waggle dance. It consists of a series of movements that communicate the direction and distance to nectar, pollen or ...

In a castaway test setup, groups of young honeybees figuring out how to forage on their own start waggle dancing spontaneously — but badly. Waggling matters. A honeybee’s rump-shimmy runs and turning ...