The waggle dance performed by a returning bee lucky enough to have found a source of food is a miraculous bit of social evolution, but it does fall down when the food is inside the hive like this. It's an incredible thing to watch. The dancing bee who has found food more than 100 metres or so away will describe a figure of eight on the comb, with a waggling walk in the centre of the movement. A waggle while moving straight up the comb on which the bee and its audience stand means that the food can be found by flying towards the sun. A waggle straight down the comb means that it is away from the sun, and diagonal waggles describe all points in between.