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How nature's most polite bees actually say excuse me to each other

Honeybees Use Stop Signals to Coordinate Busy Hive Life

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How nature's most polite bees actually say excuse me to each other

Honeybees, in their busy hives, have no structural chaos and have well ordered social etiquette. These insects use complex physical information to maintain their synchrony in crowded hives or when ingesting incoming forage information. They don't have to collide disruptively or be aggressive in their approach; instead they use a unique vibrational mechanism that is called the stop signal. It is a mild disruption that can be used cooperatively akin to an "excuse me" to coordinate the colony.
 

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