"What really surprised us was the extent of difference," researcher Heather Mattila, a honeybee behaviorist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., told LiveScience.The dance of a bee has been found to be a form of code that I shall call BinaBee from now on.
"In some colonies, you can see the less genetically diverse bees pretty much just standing still on the honeycombs on the videotape, while bees in the genetically diverse colonies are dancing or have left to go forage."
January 21, 2008
Sexed Up Bees are Better Dancers
Honeybee queens that have sex with harems of males, give birth to much better dancers, research reveals. It also shows that the more genetically diverse the hives are, the harder the boy bees like to wiggle for their Queen and Mistresses:
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