'The most interesting about bees is their communication,' said entomologist Morgan Carr-Markell.
"So I wanted to be able to use that to help land managers who are interested in planting for bees, and give them on-the-ground information," she said.
Some conservationists in the Upper Midwest have proposed restoring or reconstructing native prairie in a bid to improve the nutritional intake of bee colonies. Despite proposals to restore these habitats, there is still much that scientists don't known about the foraging strategies of bees, and therefore, how effective such initiatives would be.
They observed waggle dances of female bees in the hives between 2015 and 2017. These performances involve the insects flying in a figure-of-eight formation. In total, the researchers decoded 1,528 waggle dances finding that most advertised flower patches outside of reconstructed prairies.
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