Honeybee Head Butts Say More Than We Thought Newsy

Transcript: Honeybees dance to guide their nestmates to food. This waggle dance conveys direction and distance to nectar but sometimes it gets interrupted. If foraging bees encounter predators at a food source, they return to the nest and headbutt their dancing nestmates with a vibrated warning so fewer foragers will wander into the same trouble. Researchers have known about the behavior since 2006. But according to new research published in PLOS Biology, these vibrating warning signals vary in pitch, br, br,