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

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

Honeybees do not simply broadcast directions to food and hope for the best. A new experimental study published in 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 ...

In recent years, scientists have carefully deciphered details of the honey bee "waggle dance," which is an advanced form of ...

Fascinating and mesmerizing, honey bees talk to one another by dancing, but it doesn’t always work, according to a new study from Virginia Tech. Known as the “waggle” dance, the duration and direction ...

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

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 ...

Bees change their waggle dance based on who’s watching, showing that hive communication is more interactive than scientists ...

Honeybees fly consistent, landmark-guided routes with remarkable precision, revealing better navigation than their waggle dance suggests.