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Bees Use Sign Language to Give Hornets the Finger Tony Hisgett/CC BY 2.0 From waging war with rival colonies to cleaning house of dead bees and debris, honeybees do some amazing things. Perhaps most amazing is their ability to communicate with each other using a “waggle dance” as sign language, but it turns out that they don’t just communicate with other bees. The BBC reports on new research that suggests honeybees also send “sign language” signals to predators, warning would-be raiding hornets that they have been spotted and they’d better back off. Coolest of all is the fact that these signals actually work! More from the BBC: Read More

Bees Use Sign Language to Give Hornets the Finger

Tony Hisgett/CC BY 2.0

From waging war with rival colonies to cleaning house of dead bees and debris, honeybees do some amazing things. Perhaps most amazing is their ability to communicate with each other using a “waggle dance” as sign language, but it turns out that they don’t just communicate with other bees.

The BBC reports on new research that suggests honeybees also send “sign language” signals to predators, warning would-be raiding hornets that they have been spotted and they’d better back off. Coolest of all is the fact that these signals actually work! More from the BBC:

Read More

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