{"id":8145,"date":"2009-08-14T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T20:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2009-08-14T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T20:54:47","slug":"honeybees-have-a-death-warning-waggle-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/honeybees-have-a-death-warning-waggle-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Honeybees Have a Death Warning Waggle Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cygnus921-Honeybee-137.jpg\" alt=\"cygnus921-Honeybee-137\" title=\"cygnus921-Honeybee-137\" width=\"505\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8146\" \/><\/p>\n<div xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cygnus921\/2635808221\/\"><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cygnus921\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cygnus921\/<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over the years, we&#8217;ve gathered quite a bit of information on bees.  Some hives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5222\">melt their enemies with the collective heat<\/a> from their bodies. Cellphones are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4950\">not killing them<\/a>. They can pick out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3895\">face from a human photo<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4705\">NOT THE BEES!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we learn they have a<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8176000\/8176878.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\"> death warning waggle dance<\/a>.  Clever little critters, bees.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8176000\/8176878.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">Honeybees warn each other to steer clear of dangerous flowers where they might get killed by lurking predators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists made the discovery by placing dead bees upon flowers and then watching how newly arriving bees react to the danger.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8176000\/8176878.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">bbc<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cygnus921\/ \/ CC BY 2.0 Over the years, we&#8217;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. NOT THE BEES!!! Now we learn they have a death warning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9],"tags":[1345,1414,1416,1415,291,1413,1417,1418],"class_list":["post-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-science","tag-6-legged-domination","tag-bees","tag-black-and-yellow","tag-clever","tag-dangerous","tag-honeybees","tag-insects","tag-there-bee-danger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}