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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Part one: The dances of bees -- Historical -- Methods in general -- The round dance as a means of communication when nectar sources are nearby -- The tail-wagging dance as a means of communication ...

May 3, 2006 -- -- Finding a new home can be a difficult process, but any family wanting to do so intelligently -- without trying to kill each other -- might benefit by learning how to do the waggle ...

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 ...

Passing down shared knowledge from one generation to the next is a hallmark of culture and allows animals to rapidly adapt to a changing environment. While widely evident in species ranging from human ...

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 ...

Caitlyn Forster received funding from the Australian Research Council and The Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Eliza Middleton received funding from the Australian Research ...

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