Sound the alarm: bees ‘scream’ when murder hornets attack, study finds

Royal Society Open Science research finds bees release ‘rallying call for collective defence’ that is ‘quite harsh and noisy’

, published in the Royal Society Open Science journal this week, revealed that bees release a “rallying call for collective defence” against the hornets. The previously undiscovered signal, now known as an “anti-predator pipe, shares acoustic traits with alarm shrieks, fear screams and panic calls of primates, birds and meerkats,” according to the study.

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