Honeybees communicate the location of food
Position 1: This elegant system allows thousands of individual workers to coordinate foraging activity with extraordinary efficiency.
Position 2: A forager bee returning from a productive flower patch performs this dance on the vertical surface of the honeycomb.
Position 3: Meanwhile, the duration of each waggle run encodes the distance the other bees must fly to reach that location.
Position 4: Honeybees communicate the location of food sources to their hive-mates through a remarkable behaviour known as the waggle dance.
Position 5: The angle of the waggle run relative to vertical corresponds directly to the direction of the food source relative to the sun.
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