Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers
The Life Scientific
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Honey Bees Do It Like a Warrior Dance
A waggle dance allows one bee to tell a whole bunch of other bees where food isn't and they do it by communicating distance and direction. It's not just leaf cutting ants that split tar in this way between different individuals in a colony. Other bees do it too. The most obvious way honey bees do it is when they're foraging. Foragers tell each other, tell the other bees where the nectar is by doing a waggle Dance.
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