The wonders of bee communication 🐝🍯 50 years ago Karl von Frisch was awarded the Nobel Prize for recognising the honey bee's unique form of communication: the waggle dance. This dance was used by honeybees to communicate the location of food sources. Today, new discoveries are continuously emerging, some from Dr. Martin Bencsik's ongoing research into how honey bees use their sensitivity to vibrations to communicate through sound. https://www.newscientist.com/video/2431095-experience-the-world

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One way that bees communicate is by dancing! Do you see the bee shaking its abdomen and walking around in circles inside the hive? This is called a ‘waggle dance’ and it is how bees let each other know where to find the best sources for food, water, propolis and even new hive sites. ⁣ ⁣ The duration of the dance indicates the distance to the source—the longer the dance, the farther away it is. The angle of the dance indicates the direction to the source in relation to the hive’s location and the