Honeybees can understand other honeybee species dances

Honeybees can communicate and learn to interpret dance moves by honeeybees from other continents, researchers have found.

The nine honeybees species in the world separated about 30million years ago

One of the most most important dances is the waggle dance, which tells other honeybees where to look for nectar.

Two different hives of european and asian honeybees were established and video footage taken to see how their waggle dances differed.

If the bees danced with head upwards, it meant fly towards the sun,head downward meant away from sun.

In European honeybees, a 1.5 second dance meant 600 metres to food, to asian honeybees it meant 400 metres.

Scientists found that asian honeybees could evidiently work out that the european honeybees waggle dance meant a different distance.