Bees most definitely do not dance like no one is watching. A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

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

A new study by Chinese scientists has found that the famous waggle dance of honey bees -- a time-honored way of telling nestmates where to find food -- is not a one-way announcement but a lively ...

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

Honey bees don’t deliver perfect directions unless someone’s watching closely. When their audience shrinks, their famous ...

Honeybees do not simply broadcast directions to food and hope for the best. A new experimental study published in the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Social insects like bees demonstrate a remarkable range of behaviors, from working together to build structurally complex nests (complete with built-in climate control) to the pragmatic division of ...

When a honey bee returns to the nest after foraging for food, it breaks into dance. Moving in a figure-eight shape while shaking its abdomen helps the bee communicate to others how far away the ...