Bees communicate via the so - called waggle dance, where the dancer wiggles its body while moving in a figure of eight. (newscientist.com)
When the team watched videos of the bees filmed the following day, they found that the sleep - deprived bees performed less precise waggle dances. (newscientist.com)
To find out whether a good night's sleep is important for the bees» communicative waggle dance, Barrett Klein at the University of Texas in Austin and his colleagues kept half of a group of 50 bees awake overnight. (newscientist.com)