Head-Butting Honeybees (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Head-Butting Honeybees (3 of 4)

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This shows worker bees in a swarm labeled for individual identification. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 8, 2011, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.D. Seeley at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY., and colleagues was titled, “Stop Signals Provide Cross Inhibition in Collective Decision Making by Honeybee Swarms.”

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Image courtesy of Thomas D. Seeley

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