Shaking the swarm.
December 27, 2019
Researchers explore how bees collaborate to stabilize swarm clusters. If it’s a bad idea to kick a hornet’s nest, it’s certainly a bad idea to shake a bee swarm. Unless, of course, it’s for science. A team of Harvard University researchers spent months shaking and rattling swarms of thousands of honey bees to better understand how … More Shaking the swarm.