When it comes to impressing the ladies, greater sage-grouse males know that smooth dance moves trump combative posturing.

Ah, the beloved honeybee. They’re fuzzy and social. They make honey and beeswax. Children draw them and backyard beekeepers ...

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans.

How many times has someone spotted a swarm of honeybees and not known what to do, or worse yet, called an exterminator?

Two Dublin Bus staff – mechanic Paul Granger and driver Irwin Bannon – have set up bee hives in two depots which are now home to some 250,000 bees.

While not as deep and complex as a Super Bowl half-time show, the bees' moves, known as the “waggle" dance, convey very specific food foraging instructions to their nestmates. The direction the ...

By decoding the waggle dance, researchers can get good estimates of how far bees fly. The research describes ... a way that humans could not possibly do it," López-Uribe said.

They did, however, get better with some practice. What Other Types of Dances Do Honey Bees Perform? While honey bees are the only type of bee that performs the waggle dance, these bees also perform ...

Light pollution is making bees sleep-deprived and harming their mating waggle dance, a study has found. Artificial light from vehicles, street lights, road signs and other sources are seeping into ...

Honey bees, Apis mellifera ... If you look closely, you may even spot a scout doing the waggle dance to tell the others they've found a great new home – usually a tree hollow, possum box ...

Produced by BYU Video (Julie Walker, Adam Sanders, Matt Mitchell, Barret Schoenrock) For years, scientists have buzzed about the bee waggle – the groovy dance honeybees do by shaking their abdomen ...