Forage this good needs to be celebrated – with a dance! 🐝💃🏻 Bee Fact: Bees are excellent communicators and use both smell and movement to convey messages. The queen’s unique pheromones reassure the colony that she is alive and well. Pheromones also play an important role in protecting the hive and are used as a homing signal for foragers. But, of course, the most extraordinary method of communication is a bee’s ability to dance with precision and show the exact location of forage. After retur

These bees are drawing 8’s in celebration of our 8th birthday 🎉🎉 In fact, bees draw figure 8s all the time, otherwise known as the waggle dance! 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 w

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