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Bees Perform a 'Waggle Dance' to Communicate
Honeybees use a complex 'waggle dance' to tell other bees the direction and distance to food sources or new nest sites.
About this fact
The waggle dance is a remarkable form of symbolic communication in honeybees. A forager bee, upon returning to the hive, performs this dance on the honeycomb. The angle of the straight run of the dance relative to gravity indicates the direction of the food source relative to the sun, and the duration of the straight run indicates the distance. Other bees touch the dancer to interpret these signals.