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Uploaded by on Jan 24, 2008

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19726404.000-househunting-bees-beh...

When bees seek out a new home, thousands of bees take part in an intricate process to choose the new site.

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  • 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.

  • how the fuck do you tag bees?

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  • @SweatersDotCom Are you Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory?

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

  • midgets

  • whoa, bees can vote, excellent!

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

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

  • 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)

  • Yahweh can do anything!!!

  • 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!!

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