On the "waggle dance" that a nectar-gathering honeybee does in the hive to alert others that there's an orange tree nearby: "She heads to the dance floor and does her waggle .
The PNAS team's work was possible only because the honeybee's genome is one of the few animal genomes that scientists have decoded in full.
Scientists map the genes of the honeybee, a key agricultural pollinator whose numbers are plummeting.
U.K. Honeybee Colony Losses in Winter Were Highest on Record The U.K. lost a third of its honeybee colonies during the winter of 2012-13, the highest rate since an annual survey began, after adverse weather last year prevented bees from leaving hives to seek pollen.
June 13, 2013 - Bloomberg
Honeybee shortage threatens Calif. almond crop SACRAMENTO - The honeybee population has been dwindling for years, but Californians are now seeing the effects of the shortage firsthand.
June 11, 2013 - News10 Sacramento
Mike Johanns in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The honeybee population is absolutely critical to agricultural production,Johanns said at a ceremony for the release of a postage stamp recognizing National Pollination Week.
Vince Cable in guardian.co.uk Cable said: "The battle has partly been won over the funding, and overall awareness about the importance of honeybee populations means that government can no longer treat them as a marginal issue. But there is still a question over how the money is...
David Bellamy in News of the World TV wildlife expert, David Bellamy said: "Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared then man would have only four years of life left". "Here, the honeybee is responsible for helping to produce a third of the British diet and it's...