Why These Baby Bees Love Jam Sessions

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Bees buzzing from flower to flower is a lovely and familiar sound and that buzzing comes from the high-speed flapping of the adult bees' wings. But in at least one species of bee, the babies just love to play the drums.

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Sources:
https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/61067/element/4/423//
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bee-larva-drum-butts-percussion-wasp-biology

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