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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”
RoboBee in the hive

Waggle-dancing robot tells bees where to look for food

6 April 2018

A robotic bee talks to bees in their own language, but not all of them seem to pay attention

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