Researchers studied the famous “waggle dance” of honeybees, which they use to communicate to one another about the location ...

Bees don’t just follow dance directions - they recall landscapes, use memory, and build cognitive maps to guide efficient ...

The waggle dance, performed by successful forager honeybees (Apis mellifera) inside the hive, is a well-known form of ...

(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 ...

Members of The AURA Contemporary Ensemble and Psophonia Dance Company rehearse Colony, a series of performances about the importance of honey bees. A new series of performances meditates on humanity’s ...

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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 ...

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 ...

It is early in the morning. Ebi and his colleagues try not to twitch as they stare intently at a rectangular box filled with sugary treats. These aren't for them, but for the honey bees that they ...