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How do bees self-organise?

Simplifying Complexity

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How Bees Organize Around the Queen

Bees that are far away cannot track or detect the queen's pheromones. So what they do is something really smart. They create this chain of generating and amplifying that signal. And then other bees would come from behind and do the same thing. Very dynamic network of chemical communication where new bees join that network.

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