Bad Dancers: Childhood chills give bees six left feet

Honeybees kept just a bit cool when young turn into lousy dancers.

BEE PREPARED. A foraging honeybee is best equipped for dance communication if it developed in a warm nursery during its critical pupal stage. F. Bock/Würzburg Bee Group

That’s a serious problem for adult honeybees, explains Jürgen Tautz of the Universität Würzburg in Germany.