Hi all
I must admit to being deeply skeptical about what sounds bees make and what they can perceive. A recent book on "Insect Hearing" has this to say

Introduction to Insect Acoustics

Hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, bees, ants)
Hearing: Antennal organs for near-field hearing in honeybees
Sound production: Wingbeat mechanism; low-frequency sound in the near field

Social insects use many vibration signals in various behavioral contexts, but there is only one 
confirmed case in which a social signal includes airborne sound that is detected and
evaluated by receivers: the forager recruitment dances in Apis spp. honeybees (Hunt
and Richard 2013 ). But dance language sounds function only across very short distances
(Michelsen et al. 1986 ; Towne and Kirchner 1989 ) and are accompanied by
substrate vibration (Nieh and Tautz 2000 ) and tactile signals (Rohrseitz and Tautz
1999 ), as well as by odor. Consequently, the sound signals of honeybees are not
treated further in this chapter.

Pollack, Gerald S., et al. "Insect Hearing." (2016).

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