Beekeepers often shout at bee colonies, can bee colonies understand?

Have you ever seen a beekeeper keep muttering about the bees while collecting them, and then you will see the chaotic bees quickly clump and then the bees are obediently accepted into the hive by the beekeeper? At this time, you will definitely think that it is amazing, the beekeeper shouts at the bees, and the bees are obedient. Before I actually kept bees, I also thought it was amazing, because I did see that when the bees were divided, the sky was dark and pressed by the flying bees, and the old beekeeper shouted a few times to the bees, and the flying bees quickly formed a clump on the branches of the nearby trees, and the bees could obediently enter the beekeeper's hive.

Even the beekeepers I met later were always chattering to the bees when collecting bees, which made me think that just shouting at the bees when they split the bees would make the bees clump and easy to catch.

1. What do beekeepers shout at bees when they collect bees?

In fact, there are some differences in different places, but this is generally how it is shouted, and of course there are gongs and shouts in some places. The beekeeper shouts like this because the queen bee is the key to whether the colony can divide the bees, so if the queen bee is stopped, then the bees will quickly clump and will not fly away.

What the beekeeper shouts at the bees literally makes sense, but do the bees and queen bees really understand the beekeepers' shouts? Is it really because of the beekeeper's shouting that the clumps are formed? Some people's explanation goes something like this::

Because the beekeeper shouts at the bees in the chaos, the bees are even more confused, so as to achieve the purpose of speeding up the formation of the colony. This explanation is a bit far-fetched, after all, the bees themselves are very chaotic when they divide the bees, and the bees do not understand the beekeepers' shouts, and the bees mainly control the clumping of the bee colony in the chaos through their own pheromones.

Second, in the practice of beekeeping, it is found that shouting is effective

Clause.

First, first form a group to stabilize the order, and check whether the queen bee is in the bee colony

This is one of the most important purposes of dividing a bee colony, and the reason is actually very easy to understand. Just like an army fights a war, a chaotic army and a group of dragons without a leader will definitely end in defeat. The same is true for the swarm, the clumping is to stabilize the order, so that the bees understand that they have left the original swarm, do not hold back the idea of the original swarm, and at the same time check whether the queen bee is in the swarm, the queen bee can calmly fly to other places when the swarm is in, and the queen bee will be in chaos when the bees are not in order, and will fly back to the original swarm.

Clause.

Second, during the clumping period, one is to find a place to settle down, and the other is to wait for the beekeeper to settle down

Generally speaking, there is an abundant source of honey near the bee farm all year round, and the willingness to fly to other places is not strong, and some of the bee colonies do not fly away for several days, so the bee colonies at this time want to wait for the beekeepers to collect and return to them to make a home. Of course, it is rare to divide the bee colony for several days, and generally after the colony is formed, the scout bee will fly to another place to find a home, or have already found a place to settle down before the bee is divided, and will fly away soon after the colony. Therefore, beekeepers must quickly collect the bees that have just formed a clump, otherwise they will fly away soon.

It can be understood, and the bees are also affected by different sounds, so they can understand it.

I guess I don't understand it, but after a long time, they will have that kind of inertia.

Answer: Beekeepers often shout at the bee colony, because of the long time, the habit has become natural, and the bees can understand, which is formed after long-term domestication.

It is understandable and a habit, and bees can judge the specific situation by different pronunciations.