When older workers return to the hive and waggle dance, novice workers observe them closely. By doing so, less-experienced bees learn to perform dances that generate more accurate maps to the next ...

Nieh and a team of researchers took a deeper look at a bee’s “waggle dance.” Bees have a highly organized community structure and use the waggle dance to tell hivemates where critical food ...

The second, published in the journal Science, reported evidence for similar social learning in how honeybees learn to perform their trademark "waggle dance" to tell other bees in their colony ...

To perform their tail-wagging waltz well, young bees need to watch the adults on the dance floor. “There’s a lot that can go wrong with the waggle dance,” said James C. Nieh, a professor of ...

WATCH THE WAGGLE DANCE Essentially, the dancer points recruits in the correct direction and tells them how far to go by repeatedly circling around in a figure eight pattern centered around a waggle ...

In a study completed in 2023, scientists found that bees that had followed other dancing bees did a much better job at ...

The above video shows a fascinating look at the behavior of a colony of bees in their hive. One bee performs a little dance where she walks in a circle, then does a wiggle, and walks in the ...