Decisions, decisions: House-hunting honey bees work like complex brains
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have found a signal, overlooked until now, that plays a role when honey bees split off from their mother colony and go scouting for a new home. Called the "stop signal," it is a very short buzz delivered by a scout bee while butting her head against a dancing honey bee, and is similar to signals that occur between neurons in the brains of monkeys making decisions.