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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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