Bee language

Since ancient times, bees – especially honey bees, have been seen to symbolise industry, to bring messages from the Divine, to set an example, to be associated with the soul, and to bring the blessing of fertility .

Bees have one of the most sophisticated pheromone-driven communication systems in all of nature, with all three castes having the ability to signal other bees through pheromones . Let’s look at the wide variety of ways in which pheromones are used and why they are so essential to bees.

Bees can use sophisticated signals to warn their nestmates about the level of danger from predators attacking foragers or the nest , according to a new study.25 Mar 2016

“Honeybees are pretty good at warning people away,” he says. “Just as a rattlesnake will vibrate its tail as a warning, the first honeybees out of a hive will bump the person invading, saying ‘Leave! ‘ .”