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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

Social insects like bees demonstrate a remarkable range of behaviors, from working together to build structurally complex nests (complete with built-in climate control) to the pragmatic division of ...