House-hunting bees behave like a brain

[ottoallen1]

I only like the one's that SLAM dance! they know where the cool food is!

[blackdynomite]

how the fuck do you tag bees?

[Migslayer101]

midgets

[shibbbie]

whoa, bees can vote, excellent!

[phial1]

why do you keep using that woman who has horrible pronunciation? you could probably grab a random janitor and they would sound better.

[linfinster]

I wonder it scientists have studied the actual movement of the dance and tried to determine if there is a pattern to them. In general, when communicating the same information individually and several bees to others .. hmm wow so interesting!! I LOVE NATURE and GOD (Jehovah, YHWH) IS AMAZING!!

[Ermengarde11]

Yahweh can do anything!!!

[astronomikalz]

They have. They speculate that the direction the bee dances to, is the direction the hive should go. Also, the intensity of the wiggling determines the distance (e.i. the greater the intensity, the further the distance)

[Avalikia]

They actually do the exact same dancing maneuvers that they use when they're communicating where to find food.

[Ermengarde11]

WheelChair: Boy ain't that the truth. We humans can intellectualize some awesome stuff, but not near as much as God/the universe can come up with! We've so much to learn! It's all so intriguing.

[Ermengarde11]

It also seems to resemble political conventions!!

[jeffwads]

or Ron Pauls with the intelligence of said scouts being almost equivalent to the bees...

[beastshawnee]

No, really the votes were fixed from the beginning with those diebold voting machines.

[fatrice217]

wow that is cool

its as if they are busting thier ass by waggling

to get the best home for the hive

[88strands]

Yah!!! Waggle Dances!!!

[jaibilo]

i experienced this firsthand when i was working in this house insulating the walls. a massive wall of bees about 3 stories high slammed into the house and nestled on a huge rock outside.

[DamienZshadow]

haha, that's cool, my professor and I did a study on something similar over the summer. He and I and two other students were testing the function of the Waggle Dance and if they release pheromones that tell the bees which way to go for food.

We tried marking them to to make sure they were going to the right feeder but it was tough as all hell to get a little blotch of white out on their backs let alone freakin numbers! That must've been SOME JOB XD

[ScottishAtheist]

Ah democracy.

[mistaspot1]

I'm so fascinated with bees ever since I found out they can see at the subatomic level.

[poseidon129266]

huh?

[mistaspot1]

Bees can see into other dimensions. They are so small and their eyesight is so good that they can see things smaller than atoms. Google it. There are plenty of articles about it on the web.

[SweatersDotCom]

It's only a theory. Not to be rude but it is dangerous to spread theory and call it fact.

Mistaspot1 is referring to the idea that bee swarm movement resembles a mathematical shape called the flag manifold; the flag manifold is used in 6-dimensional quantum calculations.

Because of this connection, mathematician Barbara Shipman suggested bees may be sensitive to the movement of subatomic particles. Strictly a theory, however. Not even a theory, it's a hypothesis. Believe at your own risk.

[mistaspot1]

It's a harmless belief. I don't see any risk in believing it. I understand it is just a theory.

[Ermengarde11]

mistaspot, And thanks for sharing it, we have much to learn from the creatures!!

[WheelChairBasketball]

Everything is just a theory, as these facts you speak of are only relative and relevant to a certain situation, in this case the human existence and knowledge base!

[Ermengarde11]

I love physics! Thanks for this info. The flag manifold, never heard of it 'til now. How 'bout that Mandelbrot set stuff? Fascinating! Arthur C. Clarke, you probably know what I refer to.

[BIGBOSSTEDDY]

@SweatersDotCom Are you Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory?

[andopolis]

What does it mean if they dance the running man?

[flydarling]

That's fantastic they have a dance competition to sway the vote. That must take some doing numbering all those bees, thanks so much for sharing it with us. Cheers, Lesley