Honeybees do not have ears, but they still communicate with each other. Honeybees communicate in two main ways; they use special chemical scents called pheromones and they also dance!
The queen honeybee gives off a pheromone, this causes all the honeybees in the beehive to smell the same. The pheromone from the queen honeybee helps the guard honeybees check that the honeybees that are coming into the beehive belong in that specific beehive.
The honeybees also have a warning pheromone that the workers can produce. The warning pheromone tells the other honeybees that there is something dangerous around and then the honeybees will work together to get rid of the danger.
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