Let's explore the major differences between queen and worker bees and why this hierarchical system is crucial to hive ...

Animals were once considered mindless—incapable of thoughts or feelings. These views dominated common thought for millennia, ...

Honey bees use a famously intricate “waggle dance” to tell their hive mates the exact location of food sources. Other bees communicate much more primitively.

One of the topics the children learn about is the way in which bees communicate. Children are taught the 'waggle dance', used by bees to show each other where to locate a source of nectar. Come ...

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 ...

Light pollution is making bees sleep-deprived and harming their mating waggle dance, a study has found. Artificial light from vehicles, street lights, road signs and other sources are seeping into ...

Have you ever seen a bee shimmy and shake, and walk in a figure eight? There’s a name for that dance! Honey bees perform what researchers have termed the waggle dance.

About 12 days into their short lives, the honeybees perform their first waggle dance. They learn how to show other bees how far away a flower is by encoding it into their movements.

Study with new findings on the waggle dance of honeybees published under the leadership of zoologist and neurobiologist Professor Randolf Menzel of Freie Universität Berlin According to a recent ...

Honey bees use a complex form of spatial referential communication. Their "waggle dance" communicates the direction, distance, and quality of a resource to nestmates by encoding celestial cues, ...