The Wild Truth About Honeybees That Sounds Made Up

They do a little dance, and it's basically a map.

Honeybees give each other directions by dancing, and it's one of nature's strangest true stories.

A returning bee wiggles in a figure-eight pattern to tell the hive where good flowers are.

The angle of the dance points toward the sun, and its length hints at how far to fly.

Next time you see a bee, remember it may be following a set of directions choreographed in the dark.