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Honeybees communicate the location of food through a movement known as the waggle dance. When a forager returns to the hive after finding a rich patch of flowers, it walks in a figure-eight pattern on the vertical comb. The angle of the straight run signals the direction of the food relative to the sun, while the duration of the waggle indicates how far away the food source lies. Other bees watch closely and then fly out to gather the nectar.

A returning forager performs the waggle dance in the shape of a . The angle of the run tells other bees the of the food, and the length of the waggle shows the to the source.