I see you: Honey bees use contagious and honest visual signal to deter attacking hornets

(University of California - San Diego) What do honey bees and deadly hornets have to do with issues surrounding "fake news?" UC San Diego-led research is providing new details about honey bees and their defenses against preying hornets. Using a common iPad, James Nieh and his colleagues conducted the first study that demonstrates that a contagious warning signal counters "fake news" in social insects.