A honeybee colony is a remarkably organized society that can contain tens of thousands of insects. At its center is a single queen, whose only task is to lay eggs, sometimes more than a thousand in a day. The workers, all female, take on different jobs as they age, beginning with cleaning cells and feeding larvae before moving on to building comb, guarding the entrance, and finally foraging for nectar and pollen. Foragers communicate the location of good flowers through a waggle dance, in which the angle and duration of the movement encode direction and distance.
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