Sound the alarm: bees ‘scream’ when murder hornets attack, study finds

Royal Society Open Science research finds bees release rallying call for collective defence' that is quite harsh and noisy'

A study has revealed a new defense mechanism used by bees when attacked by giant murder" hornets: screaming.

When left unchecked, the giant Asian hornets can destroy a honeybee hive in hours, feeding on larvae and decapitating bees in what scientists call a slaughter phase". The hornets then feed severed body parts to their young.