From ILOG MARIA HONEYBEE FARMS we received an inquiry (responded to
already by Trevor Weatherhead):

>Has anyone heard / heard of, workers piping? I was inspecting a colony
>with an old queen, who happened to be above the excluder. Took out the
>frame with her on it. Pulled out each and every frame below the
>excluder, just to make sure. One frame I pulled out emitted a piping
>sound very similar to queen piping. ... Do workers pipe?

   Yes, I have heard them piping but with a sound somewhat different from
that of a queen.  We can also be certain that queen bees do pipe --- an
isolated queen in a queen cage will do so under the right circumstances.

   One can see sonograms of various bee sounds in Item #4 on the following
website:     http://www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/index.htm

   I must admit, though, that I no longer agree with some of the
conclusions in that article.  Item #22 on that website summarizes my change
of mind.

                                                        Adrian


Adrian M. Wenner                    (805) 963-8508 (home phone)
967 Garcia Road                     (805) 893-8062  (UCSB FAX)
Santa Barbara, CA  93106  [http://www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/index.htm]

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