Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A honeybee is performing the waggle dance in the center of this photo to communicate the location of a rich nectar source to its ...

Honeybees returning from a productive flower patch perform a repeating waggle dance on the vertical comb of their dark hive, ...

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Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists call eusocial, which means every bee has a job to do. This could be ...

Social insects like bees demonstrate a remarkable range of behaviors, from working together to build structurally complex nests (complete with built-in climate control) to the pragmatic division of ...

When a honey bee returns to the nest after foraging for food, it breaks into dance. Moving in a figure-eight shape while shaking its abdomen helps the bee communicate to others how far away the ...

Honeybees returning from a productive flower patch do not simply arrive and wait for nestmates to follow their scent. Instead ...

In the study, researchers at Royal Holloway University and Virginia Tech decoded 2827 waggle dances across 20 western honeybee colonies in London and surrounding agricultural areas. The information ...

We've heard about robots that communicate with one another via wireless networks, in order to collaborate on tasks. Sometimes, however, such networks aren't an option. A new bee-inspired technique ...