<p><b>Figure-Eight-Shaped Waggle Dance of the Honeybee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>).</b>
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A waggle run oriented 45° to the right of ‘up’ on the vertical comb indicates a food source 45° to the right of the direction of the sun outside the hive. The abdomen of the dancer appears blurred because of the rapid motion from side to side. Part of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waggle_dance.png" title="File:Waggle dance.png">Image:Waggle dance.png</a>
(Figure design: J. Tautz and M. Kleinhenz, Beegroup Würzburg.)
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