Honeybees returning from a productive flower patch perform a repeating waggle dance on the vertical comb of their dark hive, ...

For bees and other social insects, being able to exchange information is vital for the success of their colony. One way honeybees do this is through their waggle dance, which is a unique pattern of ...

Bees, like humans, dance to communicate. While a team of rugby players might dance the threatening Haka to tell the other team “You’re screwed,” some bees do the “waggle dance” to tell one another ...

A paper published in Nature on May 12th provides new data that resolves a long-standing scientific controversy. In the 1960s, Nobel Prize winning zoologist, Karl von Frisch, proposed that honeybees ...

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On Friday night Awbury Arboretum’s Francis Cope House glowed from strings of lights and candles. The historic house was transformed into the setting for an old-fashioned summer social. Friends and ...

Researchers tracked honey bees in the wild using a drone-based system and found that each bee follows its own highly ...

Neurons that enable honeybees to sense the waggle dance—a form of symbolic communication used by female bees to inform the hivemates about the location of a food source—are investigated in new ...

Changes in a vibration-sensitive neuron may equip forager honeybees for waggle dance communication, according to research recently published in eNeuro. Forager honeybees share information about the ...