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How does a honeybee tell hive-mates where it found food?

Past stat · 2026-10-27 UTC

The answer

Karl von Frisch decoded the waggle dance: the angle of the waggle run relative to gravity maps onto the angle from the Sun, and the run length maps onto distance. Bees navigate with a built-in polar plot.

Correct answer: A waggle dance whose angle and duration encode direction and distance

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