A beekeeper emailed me this link from BBC Earth News site of a video recording of the piping sound scout bees make when signaling the colony to begin the swarm.
"During the reproductive season, large honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies synchronise an explosive departure of most of their workers and the queen. This causes a swarm as the honeybees travel to form a new colony in a new location. The sudden departure of bees has been known about for centuries and bee keepers have even found ways to avoid it happening and avoid loosing valuable bees.
But scientists have only recently begun to understand how the bees coordinate their departure and mass exodus...
read more and watch the video after the jump
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