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Dec. 21, 2010
Dance Of The House Hunters
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How do honey bees choose a home? Scout bees search for the best sites, and then return to the swarm to try to recruit other scouts to evaluate the locations. They give directions through dance. Here's a close-up of the waggle dance that these bees use to communicate their find.
filmed, produced by carl flatow
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