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Delay Destroying Nest In Late Summer
- Don't destroy a wasp nest in late summer; tolerate it until sexuals emerge and the colony dies naturally.
- Leaving the nest for a few weeks avoids unnecessary conflict and preserves their role as pest controllers.
Bees Use Smelly Footprints
- Bees detect recent visitors by smelly footprints on flowers and avoid low-reward blossoms.
- This sensory learning explains cautious approach behaviour before landing and efficient foraging decisions.
Waggle Dance Encodes Location
- Honey bees perform the waggle dance to communicate precise direction and distance to food sources inside a dark hive.
- They adjust the dance for the moving sun and encode distance by run length and angle by orientation on the comb.