Editing Bee (section)

===Navigation, communication, and finding food===
[[File:Bee_dance.svg|thumb|upright|[[Karl von Frisch]] (1953) discovered that honey bee workers can [[animal navigation|navigate]], indicating the range and direction to food to other workers with a [[waggle dance]].]]
{{further|Animal navigation|Waggle dance}}

The ethologist [[Karl von Frisch]] studied [[animal navigation|navigation]] in the honey bee. He showed that honey bees communicate by the [[waggle dance]], in which a worker indicates the location of a food source to other workers in the hive. He demonstrated that bees can recognize a desired compass direction in three different ways: by the Sun, by the [[Polarization (waves)|polarization]] pattern of the blue sky, and by the Earth's magnetic field. He showed that the Sun is the preferred or main compass; the other mechanisms are used under cloudy skies or inside a dark [[beehive]].<ref name=vonFrisch93>{{cite book |last=von Frisch |first=Karl |title=The Dancing Bees |year=1953 |publisher=Harcourt, Brace & World | pages=93–96}}</ref> Bees navigate using [[spatial memory]] with a "rich, map-like organization".<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Menzel, Randolf |author2=Greggers, Uwe |author3=Smith, Alan |author4=Berger, Sandra |author5=Brandt, Robert |author6=Brunke, Sascha |author7=Bundrock, Gesine |author8=Hülse, Sandra |author9=Plümpe, Tobias |author10=Schaupp, Schaupp |author11=Schüttler, Elke |author12=Stach, Silke |author13=Stindt, Jan |author14=Stollhoff, Nicola |author15=Watzl, Sebastian |title=Honey bees Navigate According to a Map-Like Spatial Memory |journal=PNAS |year=2005 |volume=102 |issue=8 |pages=3040–3045 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0408550102 |pmid=15710880 |pmc=549458|bibcode=2005PNAS..102.3040M |doi-access=free }}</ref>