Bad Dancers: Childhood chills give bees six left feet
By Susan Milius
Honeybees kept just a bit cool when young turn into lousy dancers.
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That’s a serious problem for adult honeybees, explains Jürgen Tautz of the Universität Würzburg in Germany. When a worker bee comes home after finding food, she does a little dance to communicate the location of her discovery. A bad dancer can leave her nest mates without clear directions or much motivation to visit her windfall.