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 ...

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

Honey bees don’t just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance depending on who’s watching. Researchers found that when fewer bees pay attention, ...

Honeybees do not simply broadcast directions to food and hope for the best. A new experimental study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that foraging bees adjust ...

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 ...

In recent years, scientists have carefully deciphered details of the honey bee "waggle dance," which is an advanced form of social communication in the animal kingdom. University of California San ...

For bees and other social insects, being able to exchange information is vital for the success of their colony. One way honeybees do this is through their waggle dance, which is a unique pattern of ...

The precision of their "waggle dance" fluctuates depending on audience size and who’s in attendance, according to the findings. Scientists have in recent years carefully deciphered details of the ...

(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 ...

The inner cognitive lives of bees have always fascinated me. 1 A recent book by bee expert Dr. Jürgen Tautz titled Communication Between Honeybees: More than Just a Dance in the Dark critically ...

For bees and other social insects, being able to exchange information is vital for the success of their colony. One way honeybees do this is through their waggle dance. Biologists have now shed some ...