Did You Know....? - Insect Asides


Honeybees communicate with each other by a complicated system of round-dancing and tail-waggling. But they use different dialects. For example, Italian honeybees cannot understand Austrian honeybees. The Italian changes from the round to the waggle when food is about 115ft from the colony whereas the Austrian does so at 260ft.

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