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Monday, March 28, 2016

The sophisticated warning system of bees

Scientists from UC,  San Diego and tropical botanical garden Chinese Academy of sciences, China, have discovered that bees use sophisticated signals to warn their nestmates about level of danger from predators. The signals encode level of danger in its vibrational frequency. This is the most sophisticated system  of signals discovered in a social insect so far.
The details appear in the latest edition of journal PLOS biology

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