“Dot.” “Dash.” Short pulse, long pulse. Humans invented Morse code as a way to communicate using electrical signals. Now, bees have managed to learn the fundamental building blocks of this alphabet. A ...

Honeybees rely heavily on flower patterns – not just colours – when searching for food, new research shows. A team led by the University of Exeter tested bee behaviour and built bee's-eye-view ...

A. Research by Karl von Frisch, which won him a Nobel prize in 1973, delineated the well-known “waggle dance” performed by the returning honeybee to help communicate the location and distance of a ...