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Buzz Gives Directions

Bees don't point. They dance.

Starring Buzz the Bee · Pip the Chick

  1. Panel 1

    Buzz: Wiggle-wiggle, turn, wiggle-wiggle, turn.

  2. Panel 2

    Pip: Are you… dancing at me?

  3. Panel 3

    Buzz: I'm giving you directions! Clover field, that way, 300 wing-beats.

  4. Panel 4

    Pip: Can you do it slower? I'm not fluent in dance.

  5. Panel 5

    Buzz: Fine. But my feet are getting tired.

And this bit is really true

Honeybees use a waggle dance to tell hive-mates the direction and distance of flowers — the angle of the waggle points relative to the sun.

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