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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Source: Photo by Ingo Arndt, Jürgen Tautz, with permission. The inner cognitive lives of bees have always fascinated me. 1 A recent book by bee expert Dr. Jürgen Tautz titled Communication Between ...