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

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

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

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

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

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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 ...

In an earlier story, I wrote about how bees were searching for nectar. After finding some food, a bee returns to its hive and performs a 'waggle dance' to share its discovery with the group. Now ...

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 ...