Waggle dances are tricky to execute, and missteps can send foraging bees flying off in the wrong direction. But there’s a critical learning phase in a young worker bee’s life when she’s ...

Known as the “waggle” dance, ... They would subsequently dance from their sheer joy. Zeroing on this pattern, they were able to observe under which conditions the communication strategy worked.

Bee waggle dancing, a sort of language, turns out to be both innate and learned, like songbird or human communication. The dance may appear simple in a diagram, but executing it on expanses of ...

A new study revealed how honey bees learn to "waggle dance." Move over Queen Bey, these pollinators may have you bee-t. Move over Queen Bey, these pollinators may have you bee-t.

Beekeepers call this the waggle dance, and it’s how bees communicate to other bees that they have discovered a food source and where it’s located.

Waggle dance communication is complex, and the bees’ task is further complicated by having to perform on vertical, irregular honeycomb stages with no light, said study coauthor James Nieh, a ...