waggle dance
Americannoun
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This enabled them to track the position of the antennae of the surrounding bees in fine detail during each waggle dance -- which are otherwise a blur to the naked human eye.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
Insects are known to be capable of social learning in the wild: the best-known example is the so-called waggle dance used by honeybees to communicate the location and quality of flowers.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 7, 2023
Honeybees communicate to each other using a waggle dance that depends heavily on choreography.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2022
Honeybees also use the waggle dance to communicate the location of rewarding flower patches to nest-mates.
From Nature ● Apr. 21, 2015
They return to the hive one by one, indicating, by a waggle dance first analyzed by Martin Lindauer 60 years ago, both the location and the quality of the site.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2010
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