"Surfing" makes for a cool headline, but I would call this swimming. A surfer stays on a single wave.

This might be an especially efficient form of swimming, though -- one where the paddles move at the waves' resonant frequency.

non-paywall source: https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/honeybees-can-surf-to-saf...

Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/science/bees-surfing-wate.... Thanks!