How do bumblebees get predators to buzz off?
Friday, May 28, 2010 - 23:32
in Biology & Nature
Toxic or venomous animals, like bumblebees, are often brightly colored to tell would-be predators to keep away. However scientists in the UK have found a bumblebee's defense could extend further than its distinctive color pattern and may indeed be linked to their characteristic shape, flight pattern or buzzing sound.