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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interestingly, researchers have found that the dance does not appear to be instinctual. Instead, it’s learned by watching ...

Bees therefore can make three different types of mistakes: pointing in the wrong direction, signaling the wrong distance, or making more errors in performing the figure eight dance pattern ...

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 ...