When honey bees find a good source of food, they return to their hive and perform a waggle dance. It consists of a series of ...

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 ...

May 3, 2006 -- -- Finding a new home can be a difficult process, but any family wanting to do so intelligently -- without trying to kill each other -- might benefit by learning how to do the waggle ...

Booty-shaking worker bees guide their fellow workers to pollen by a form of communication known as "waggle dancing" — performing steps that map out where food is located and how far it is from the ...

A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist and behavioral biologist Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw studied the ...

Honey bees follow personal and highly precise flight routes using landmarks and memory, according to new research.

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Bees are amazing highly intelligent, very likely sentient, and emotional animals. Bee expert Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau's new book titled What Do Bees Think About? is an eye-opening and mind-expanding ...