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

Honey bees don’t just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance ...

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

So, Tan and colleagues put the audience effect to the test by using an aspirator to remove spectator bees while a bee was ...

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

Scientists have in recent years carefully deciphered details of the dance - an advanced form of social communication in the ...

Research shows honey bees adjust the precision of their waggle dance movements depending on audience size and composition.

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

In recent years, scientists have carefully deciphered details of the honey bee "waggle dance," which is an advanced form of ...

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 ...

(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 ...