The ants carry petals that cover the honey bee's body

A woman in the United States recorded the scene of ant colonies that looked like they were holding a special ceremony for bumblebees with small pink petals.

Nicole Webinger, a woman living in Minnesota, USA, shared a video of the strange scene that took place between ants and bumblebee, Science Alert on August 22 reported."I caught this near a garden outside the workplace. The bee bee died and we watched the ants carry the petals to spread around. Looks like they're holding a funeral for it," Webinger said. description.

Ants and bees all produce oleic acid compounds when they die. Bees often push corpses out of the nest while ants gather to a gathering yard. Some argue that ants in the video are carrying bumblebee to this graveyard.

"It is possible to respond to chemical signals depending on the circumstances, otherwise they will be full of dead things. Maybe they react with oleic acid and some worker ants are confused trying to pull the bee into Although it doesn't sound ridiculous, I think this possibility is very unlikely , " said Mark Elgar, a bioengineering researcher at the University of Melbourne.

Others claim that ant colonies might hide the smell of bees from predators to handle it later. However, the scientific community has never recorded such behavior in this animal.

Art bees are dead and ants carry petals to spread around.

"I guess the bees lay on the entrance of the ant nest so there are many petals around and some ants bring more petals , " Elgar said. Many ants use or eat parts of plants, including petals. If the bee blocked the entrance, the ants would be embarrassed to bring things to the nest.

"Of course this can also be done by people. Someone has put a bee there and created this cute image," he added.