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Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food

Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food

6 April 2018

German yellowjacket wasps alert each other to food by drumming their abdomens against the nest wall, in a wasp equivalent of the famous honeybee “waggle dance”

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