I heard an intriguing interview with mathematician, Barbara Shipman, on
National Public Radio last November about her discovery that the shapes
of honeybees' foraging recruitment dances map directly to the "shadows"
of six-dimensional shapes projected down to two-dimensions (flat
surface).  Here are two references to the story.  No heavy math in
these, but just one more thing to love about Bees.
 
(Discovery Magazine, article)
http://www.discover.com/netahtml/index.html
 
(NPR Interview with Dr. Shipman)
http://www.npr.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+npr+npr+5684+8+wAAA+honeybee
 
Charles Rich (Seattle, USA)