Tag Archive for 'Asian honeybee'

Vespa soror hornets attack a hive of eastern honeybees (Apis cerana) in Vietnam. Image credit: Heather Mattila / Wellesley College.

Study: Eastern Honeybees Use Specific Sound to Communicate Threat of Giant Hornets

Nov 10, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has documented the unique vibroacoustic signals the eastern honeybees (Apis cerana) use to alert members of their...

An eastern honeybee (Apis cerana). Image credit: Rushen B.

Eastern Honeybees Use Animal Feces to Protect Their Colonies from Giant Hornets

Dec 11, 2020 by News Staff

In a paper published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, an international team of researchers described an extraordinary collective defense used by eastern...