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

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

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 just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...