Waggle dance

Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations with other members of the colony.

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EUSOCIALITY

The science of social life — ants, bees, termites, mole-rats and the biology of cooperation, kinship, and colony behavior.

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