How do bees self-organise?
Simplifying Complexity
How Honey Bees Communicate With Each Other
Honey bees cannot talk to each other, but they can communicate with each other using other communication signals. The waggle dance is a simple movement that the bees do on top of each other when they're in a swarm or inside a hive. It encapsulates everything another bee needs to know about where is a particular useful spot around the hive. They use pheromones for more local communication inside the hive. And one of them is basically molecules that are very volatile, so they diffuse very fast and they kind of decay very fast in time and space.
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