One bee performs a little dance where she walks in a circle, then does a wiggle, and walks in the opposite direction, repeating her wiggle. Beekeepers call this the waggle dance, and it’s how ...

Bee flight in pairs: one member of the pair runs in their precise circle around the other; then they swap over and repeat. Bees do the Waggle Dance in 4s: two pairs join up and each member of the ...

One such observation was that bees have consistent, unique ways of dancing, meaning each bee has its own 'style' that it adds to the communication. Could the success of the waggle dance be related ...

The process is known as a ‘waggle dance’. The dance movement takes place within two intersecting D shapes, and the middle part is the bee’s ‘waggle run’. The angle from which they depart ...

We also filmed the famous bee “waggle” dance, a unique symbolic language in the animal kingdom. Some life events, like the daily routine of foraging for food, were fairly easy to film.

A bee dancing to share foraging locations with hive mates. Credit: Margaret Couvillon for Virginia Tech. Honeybees have had millions of years to perfect the waggle dance, so it may be surprising ...

One such observation was that bees have consistent, unique ways of dancing, meaning each bee has its own “style” that it adds to the communication. Could the success of the waggle dance be ...