Why Do Bees Do the Wobble?

Bees do the wobble to tell other bees where food is. If a bee finds a flower with lots of nectar, it goes back to the hive and does this special dance, the waggling dance, to show its friends exactly how far away the food is and in which direction they should fly.

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A bee finds a flower with lots of honey and goes back to the hive, doing a little wiggly dance.
Another bee watches the dance and flies in the same direction the first one danced.
The second bee finds the flower and returns to tell even more bees about it.

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