> Bees do not have hearing as such, although
> they have great sensitivity to vibrations.
Google "bees airborne sound", and you'll find a number of good studies showing that bees can hear airborne sound, and that it has an important role in their lives, such as this one:
Journal of Comparative Physiology A
January 1991, Volume 168, Issue 1, pp 85-89
Hearing in honeybees: operant conditioning and spontaneous reactions to airborne sound
Kirchner, Dreller, Towne
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00217106
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