Fascinating and mesmerizing, honey bees talk to one another by dancing, but it doesn’t always work, according to a new study from Virginia Tech. Known as the “waggle” dance, the duration and direction ...

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 ...

May 3, 2006 -- -- Finding a new home can be a difficult process, but any family wanting to do so intelligently -- without trying to kill each other -- might benefit by learning how to do the waggle ...

Researchers studied the famous “waggle dance” of honeybees, which they use to communicate to one another about the location of resources, to evaluate whether they integrate memory of the terrain into ...

As far as animals go, honeybees are world-class dancers. While not as deep and complex as a Super Bowl half-time show, the bees' moves, known as the “waggle" dance, convey very specific food foraging ...

Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to navigate; they always know where the sun is, even if ...