3.6K views · 11 reactions | Did you know bees use a waggle dance it to communicate important information? And now so do humans. It was World Bee Day this week and to celebrate, the children and staff at Spring Terrace Public School near Orange have taken part in a global waggle dance challenge. It was organised in conjunction with local group Bee Natural Beekeepers - Varroa Warriors. | ABC Central West | Facebook

The wonders of bee communication 🐝🍯 50 years ago Karl von Frisch was awarded the Nobel Prize for recognising the honey bee's unique form of communication: the waggle dance. This dance was used by honeybees to communicate the location of food sources. Today, new discoveries are continuously emerging, some from Dr. Martin Bencsik's ongoing research into how honey bees use their sensitivity to vibrations to communicate through sound. https://www.newscientist.com/video/2431095-experience-the-world

These bees are drawing 8’s in celebration of our 8th birthday 🎉🎉 In fact, bees draw figure 8s all the time, otherwise known as the waggle dance! Not just fancy footwork, the waggle dance is a highly evolved form of communication that bees use to share the exact location of a forage source with the rest of the hive. Here’s some waggle 101: 💃 The duration of the waggle indicates the distance to the flower source 💃 The more vigorous the waggle, the more abundant the nectar 💃 The angle of the w

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