The Bee Dance

(Inside Science ) -- James Nieh, a professor at the University of California, San Diego says, “I study all different kinds of social bees because you really need to look at social bees to study their communication. I look at honeybees, bumblebees, and stingless bees.”

“Honeybees have this amazing ability to communicate, and it's one of the reasons why I became a biologist, because I discovered as an undergraduate that they could communicate using a waggle dance,” said Nieh.

“So a bee that dances inside the nest, let's say she goes out to find a good food source. She'll find that flower, and if it's rewarding enough, she'll come back, and she'll do this dance that almost looks like a figure 8 of a bee dancing back and forth and then waggling her butt, if you will, her abdomen. And that waggling is key because the angle at which she's waggling and the duration of time she spends doing it actually tells bees where to go to find food,” said Nieh.

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[Horse]

Bees can sense the electrical energy of flowers. If a flower has low energy, the bee will pass on it to another flower.

[donbeck]

Probably one of the top 5 most fascinating creatures on earth

[emyywolf]

Are you literally telling me that
Bees are able to tell other bees where to get food, how far away it is, how much there is.
And how dangerous it is?

[nathaliesuprematie]

Does anybody realize that bees can use seismic sense. Its looks like bees are the real life Toph

[QuantumNova]

The subterranean bees are my favorite. I was amazed to see bees going under ground. They have black and white 'hair' also.

[autumnwoods]

Hey! That's my college animal behavior professor! He was rad!

[kirtikumarbaba]

Karl Ritter von Frisch (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) discovered bee dance.

[lilac]

That one bee summarized the whole fnaf lore

[BlinkinFirefly]

This is so fascinating! There is so much intelligence in the animal kingdom. It's really humbling. This is why I don't kill any insects, even if I find them in my home and they could bite or sting. I try to let them go outside...Ugh, I'm saying this and I still eat meat...I have some waking up to do...But I do kill fleas...when they attack my cat...argh...decisions.

[MbabaaliJosephat-ohsi]

I have been so engrossed with the waggle dance that I even for got to see other types

[everyluvstaytay]

the other bees be like: hit it jerrold!

[JuzRaza]

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It was TWERKING before Miley Cyrus!!! x'D

[pizzamamamita]

Bees feel vibrations is literaly the same thing the Human Ear does 1:39

[supermonkeygodking]

So we have to copy their ability to feel that

[ArtBellJr]

Bees have up to 19 different pheromones they also can use . Like when one dies they release the attack pheromones and it’s go time for getting stung.

[Sibik]

I wonder what type of music do bee’s like? 🤔

[megumis.edits_]

Fun fact: They don’t communicate about stuff like that. They dance to let other bees know where the flower they got honey from.

[circuitccast]

“And your Lord inspired the bee, saying: “Take you habitations in the mountains and in the trees and in what they erect. Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you).” There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think.” (Al Quran- Sura Nahl- Verse-68-69)

[save_hyrule]

so..bees shake their ass for others bees?!

[topdawg]

Curious does one notice the hexagons lattice oriented towards the magnetic poles??? Depending on where it's created???