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

Honey bees don’t just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance ...

Scientists have in recent years carefully deciphered details of the dance - an advanced form of social communication in 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 deliver perfect directions unless someone’s watching closely. When their audience shrinks, their famous ...

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

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 ...

A honeybee is performing the waggle dance in the center of this photo to communicate the location of a rich nectar source to its nestmates. Heather Broccard-Bell, CC BY-ND The Greek historian ...

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

(THE CONVERSATION) – The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a misguided forbidden experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king could ...