Over the years, we’ve gathered quite a bit of information on bees. Some hives melt their enemies with the collective heat from their bodies. Cellphones are not killing them. They can pick out a face from a human photo.
Now we learn they have a death warning waggle dance. Clever little critters, bees.
Scientists made the discovery by placing dead bees upon flowers and then watching how newly arriving bees react to the danger.
Not only do the bees avoid the flowers, they then communicate the threat when they return to the hive via their well known waggle dance.
(via bbc)
