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

The waggle dance is not just fancy footwork, the waggle dance is a highly evolved form of communication that bees use to share the exact location of a forage source with the rest of the hive. Here’s some waggle 101: 💃 The duration of the waggle indicates the distance to the flower source 💃 The more vigorous the waggle, the more abundant the nectar 💃 The angle of the waggle to the sun represents the angle that the bees need to fly at to reach the flowers So, the next time you see a bee busting