What is the waggle dance of honeybees?

The answer

The waggle dance is a sophisticated communication system discovered by Karl von Frisch, who received a Nobel Prize for his work. When a forager bee finds a good food source, she performs a figure-eight dance on the vertical comb surface. The angle of the straight waggle run relative to vertical indicates the direction of food relative to the sun, while the duration of the waggle run encodes distance, with roughly one second of waggling representing about one kilometer. The vigor of the dance communicates the quality of the food source, effectively allowing bees to share precise GPS-like coordinates through movement.