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 ...

Source: Photo by Ingo Arndt, Jürgen Tautz, with permission. The inner cognitive lives of bees have always fascinated me. 1 A recent book by bee expert Dr. Jürgen Tautz titled Communication Between ...

For bees and other social insects, being able to exchange information is vital for the success of their colony. One way honeybees do this is through their waggle dance, which is a unique pattern of ...

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Scientists have decoded the meaning of more than 1,500 honey bee "waggle dances," which the insects use to communicate information about food sources. According to a study published in the journal ...

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 ...

It is early in the morning. Ebi and his colleagues try not to twitch as they stare intently at a rectangular box filled with sugary treats. These aren't for them, but for the honey bees that they ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a misguided forbidden experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king could ...

The inner cognitive lives of bees have always fascinated me. 1 A recent book by bee expert Dr. Jürgen Tautz titled Communication Between Honeybees: More than Just a Dance in the Dark critically ...

For bees and other social insects, being able to exchange information is vital for the success of their colony. One way honeybees do this is through their waggle dance. Biologists have now shed some ...