Listen to the sounds of honeybee queens "tooting" and "quacking" Scientists using highly sensitive vibration detectors have decoded honeybee queens' "tooting and quacking" duets in the hive. Worker ...

Scientists have discovered the meaning behind “quacking and tooting” noises made by honeybee queens as they emerge from their nurseries. Using highly sensitive accelerometers to measure vibrations in ...

Scientists have decoded a call-and-response between newborn queen bees, ‘tooting and quacking’ in their hives. Scientists have found that newborn honeybee queens sing duets in the hive (no, sadly not ...

Honeybee queens fill hives with a symphony to tell workers when they are ready to emerge and leave the nest to found new colonies, a study has revealed. When a queen is ready to hatch, she starts ...

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You may have learned in school that bees buzz and ducks quack — but it turns out it's a little more complicated than that. Honeybee queens, when they first emerge from their eggs and form new colonies ...