4. Communication experts

Communication experts

Bees release a liquid through their strong-smelling legs that they can use to mark their feeding sites. Basically it is a demarcation of the territory with a bouquet of bees’ stinky feet.

2. Efficient

Effizient

When forager bees have sucked up the nectar of a flower they visited, they mark it with a special scent so that their colleagues know that there is nothing left to get there. The scent consists of a specific pheromone, which is transmitted to the flower by an adhesive patch on the hind legs.