BEES tell each other where food is by performing a dance in the honeycomb.
Now, with the help of lasers and strobe lights, scientists have discovered how
bopping bees lure their audiences to the dance floor.
A honeybee back from a foraging mission uses a coded dance, including a
side-to-side “waggle”, to inform its nest mates about the whereabouts of the
food. Soon other bees arrive and copy its moves before flying off to find the
booty. “But the complex interaction between honeybee dancers and their followers
is far from being understood,” says Jürgen Tautz of Würzburg
University…
