albertcardona ,
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Decoding honeybees’ waggle dance:

“Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance”, by Anna Hadjitofi and Barbara Webb 2024.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00220-3

Couldn’t be any other way: the bees’ nest is pitch dark!

albertcardona OP ,
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The supplemental data has a captivating set of photographs of bees inside the hive, highlighting their head and antennae positions, and documenting trophalaxis (passing food onto each other).

A number of photos illustrating the relative position and angle of the head and antennae of the bees, and how bees pass on food onto each other (trophalaxis). Figure S1. Point of view (POV) from camera positioned parallel to honeycomb. Related to Figure 1. (A) Examples of general head and antennae positions from around the hive. In such cases, the varying pitch and roll of head and antennae make it difficult to determine the true orientation of their position in a 3D plane. (B) When following dances, nestmates’ antennae are outstretched and they show a stable positioning of head, making it feasible to measure antennal angles from a parallel top-down camera view. D and F indicate dancer and follower bee, respectively. (C) Intermittent cases where determining the angle of antennae is not possible and excluded from the dataset.
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