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How do honeybees communicate the location of food sources?

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Honeybees communicate the location of food sources through a dance known as the waggle dance. This dance involves a returning forager bee moving in a figure-eight pattern and waggling its abdomen to indicate the direction and distance of the food source in relation to the sun. Other bees interpret this dance and fly out to find the food source based on the information conveyed.
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