Figure 40.11: The Honey Bee Waggle Dance (A) A honey bee (Apis mellifera) worker runs straight up on the vertical surface of the honeycomb in a dark hive while wagging her abdomen to tell other workers in her hive that there is a food source in the direction of the sun. (B) When the waggle runs are at angle γ from the vertical, the other bees know that the same angle, γ, separates the direction of the food source from the direction of the sun.