Honeybee dance. Computer artwork showing a honeybee (top) using its waggle dance to convey the location of food to other honeybees surrounding it. Whe

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Honeybee dance. Computer artwork showing a honeybee (top) using its waggle dance to convey the location of food to other honeybees surrounding it. When a foraging honeybee has found food it returns to the hive and dances a figure of eight (red line). The orientation of the central line of the dance indicates the position of the food source in relation to the Sun, while any waggles of the bee's body show the food's distance.

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Size: 3289px × 2669px
Photo credit: © CLAUS LUNAU/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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