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So, Tan and colleagues put the audience effect to the test by using an aspirator to remove spectator bees while a bee was dancing (rude, but good science). They then tested two small audience types: ...

(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 ...

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 ...

For a bee to be successful, it needs to shake its honey maker. Scientists have long known honey bees jiggle their bodies to let nestmates know the location of nearby nectar and pollen. Bees ...

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 don’t just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance depending on who’s watching. Researchers found that when fewer bees pay attention, ...

Honeybees do not simply broadcast directions to food and hope for the best. A new experimental study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that foraging bees adjust ...

In recent years, scientists have carefully deciphered details of the honey bee "waggle dance," which is an advanced form of social communication in the animal kingdom. University of California San ...

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 ...

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 ...