Bees may attack you if you will smell of bananas

Ants and bees need a special way to communicate. They live for only six weeks, and in a beehive or anthill their lives thousands, and they all have to work as a single mechanism, so it is unlikely insects remember "faces" of individuals. Instead, they use smell to announce who they are and that they must do other individuals around them. If their house proberёtsya insect another species and, therefore, looking quite differently, it will take him for her in the event that the stranger will smell just as "local».

Honey bees know they left the hive queen, when you no longer feel its smell. They also know when it's time mating with the queen - it allocates the appropriate scent. And when the bees attacked, it may also be due to the fact the victim smell. Moreover, when a bee attack, it "marks" the victim and thus informs the other bees that stung the creature dangerous and need to be protected.

The smell is like the smell of bananas. Beekeepers are advised to refrain from using cosmetics with banana smell, as well as eating a banana to eat just before a visit to the apiary. Cases have already been attacks: Sometimes inexperienced beekeepers, after eating bananas, came to the bee hives were attacked by a swarm.

If you, on the contrary, want to reduce their risk of being stung, you should rub the skin with almond oil or use any cosmetics with almond smell - the smell of bees scare.

via factroom.ru