Honeybees Are Right 'Handed'

When bees are forced to interact with only their left antennas, they have trouble bee-having: Just as humans shake with their right hands, bees also greet each other by predominantly using their right antennas. A new study found that when pairs of bees interact solely with their right antennas, they approach each other and begin interacting more quickly, and relate more positively to each other -- for instance by extending their tongue, or proboscis. When they interact only with their left anten...