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

A dancing honey bee (center) is surrounded by an audience of “followers” that carefully interpret the movements of the ...

Human influences have the potential to reduce the effectivity of communication in bees adding further stress to struggling colonies, according to new analysis. Scientists at the University of Bristol ...

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

Bees change their waggle dance based on who’s watching, showing that hive communication is more interactive than scientists ...

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

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 ...

The post Why Bees Do the Waggle Dance appeared first on A-Z Animals. Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists ...

(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 ...

Ongoing research into the effect of environmental change on the buzzing of bees reveals that high temperatures and exposure to heavy metals reduces the frequency (and audible pitch) of non-flight wing ...