Learn more about the complexities of the honey bee waggle dance and why the audience size matters.

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

A dancing honey bee (center) is surrounded by an audience of “followers” that carefully interpret the movements of the ...

Honeybees do not simply broadcast directions to food and hope for the best. A new experimental study published in the ...

They say dance like no one’s watching – that is, unless you’re a bee. On their quest to decipher the complex “waggle dance”, ...

Scientists have in recent years carefully deciphered details of the dance - an advanced form of social communication in the ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

A new study by Chinese scientists has found that the famous waggle dance of honey bees – a time-honoured way of telling nestmates where ...

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 ...