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Queen Piping Question
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Black" data-source="post: 10978" data-attributes="member: 200"><p>Pipping (or ‘quacking’) made by virgins are call and response signals made by pulsing vibrations of the flight muscles transmitted locally through the wax comb substrate. The ‘toots are generally a higher pitch and longer than the lower pitch ‘quack’ response. The tooting is known to delay the emergence of a virgin and encourages worker to confine the virgins sometime for days (‘bees take quite elaborate steps to prevent queens fighting). Emerged queens also pipe, and the workers seem to freeze on the spot to ‘listen’ (through their feet). Workers are also known to pipe when returning from foraging or dancing but more often before a swarm departs, when the pipers are the scouts driving the swarm.</p><p>Honeybees are very noisy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Black, post: 10978, member: 200"] Pipping (or ‘quacking’) made by virgins are call and response signals made by pulsing vibrations of the flight muscles transmitted locally through the wax comb substrate. The ‘toots are generally a higher pitch and longer than the lower pitch ‘quack’ response. The tooting is known to delay the emergence of a virgin and encourages worker to confine the virgins sometime for days (‘bees take quite elaborate steps to prevent queens fighting). Emerged queens also pipe, and the workers seem to freeze on the spot to ‘listen’ (through their feet). Workers are also known to pipe when returning from foraging or dancing but more often before a swarm departs, when the pipers are the scouts driving the swarm. Honeybees are very noisy. [/QUOTE]
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