How Do Insects Communicate? The Science of Entomology

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It's no wonder that insects don't bother trying to learn to speak—they communicate through interpretive dance and pheromones instead. Honeybees waggle their bodies in fixed directions and durations to signal where food is, while moths spray scents to get their points across. Put on your leotard and express your feelings like a bee.

Table of Contents:

00:00 What the Waggle Dance Reveals about Honeybees
04:52 Size Matters When It Comes to Beehives
08:55 How Does a Bee Colony Choose a Home?
12:55 How Chemicals Govern Insect Behavior
18:52 Ant Colony Optimization
21:07 Why Fire Ants Spread across the U.S.
25:38 Ritualized Combat among Insects

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#Insects #NonVerbalCommunication #Honeybees

[kazkk]

The creativity and patience required to test these hypothesis is awe inspy

[ingenuity]

Awesome findings 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💜

Ant put in fridge will become dead- like, but once taken out of the fridge, it will move and come alive.

[robertsyrett]

Imagine being an ant soaked in oleic acid. "No really! I ain't dead!"

[samuelmiensinompe]

I have to say, no one who has explained the waggle dance communication has ever done it in a manner that I can understand the whole concept. For example, where is the sun point relative to the direction of the waggle. How much does each waggle means in distance. Why do some bees get so close and disturb the waggle dance instead of watching from a specific direction. How is it that all bees understand the direction when they are viewing the dance from different perspectives?

[ChrisHplusland]

I know that if ya piss them off, they will remember your scent and sting ya later lol

[VictorFursov]

Best entomological greetings from Ukraine! Thank you for interesting and entertaining video story about insects!

[jodintlz]

give us an Elizabeth Vandiver episode, Egypt in herodotus will be nice

[ybor]

it's interesting but I still can't get used to it, nor do I understand why scientific programs refuse to use the international system of units. When you publish something in the local media you can use thinds like Farenheit so people whom are still living two hundred years ago, understand how the world in the future will look like.
However, when you make use of an international medium, please...use international units!
So now after 4 minutes I had to stop the video to find out about how much celcius you were talking... and getting so tired of it, expecting you will come with more messure units from two hundred years ago, I decide to go to something else.
I was subscribed because I thought it was contemporary knowledge... but it seems it isn't.

[musaritrashid]

If there is gravity on the objects then why we can't control the objects around us without touching them . If there is really gravitational force among the objects then why .

[davidarundel]

Interesting, and a bit dirty to - should please some .
Namaste 🙏🤔

[vle]

Imagine that all these behaviour are written in their genes...

[FupaDoncic]

Simple, they just buzz each other over.