Honeybees returning from a productive flower patch do not simply arrive and wait for nestmates to follow their scent. Instead ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Honeybees are known to communicate in a dance language called the waggle dance to point out the ...

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. Biologists have now shed some ...

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 ...