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

Professor James Nieh compares the waggle dance to a musician’s performance. With a large audience, the performer concentrates on the music. With fewer listeners, they scan faces and adjust their ...

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

Scientists have in recent years carefully deciphered details of the dance - an advanced form of social communication in the animal kingdom. The post New research reveals what makes honey bees dance ...

A dancing honey bee (center) is surrounded by an audience of “followers” that carefully interpret the movements of the ultra-fast ‘waggle’ dance. Credit: Heather Broccard Bell Honey bees literally ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feb. 22 (UPI) --New research into the benefits of honeybee waggle dancing suggests the communicative rump-shaking isn't always useful. When the information conveyed by waggle dancing is irrelevant or ...

We've heard about robots that communicate with one another via wireless networks, in order to collaborate on tasks. Sometimes, however, such networks aren't an option. A new bee-inspired technique ...

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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