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How Bees Navigate

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WORKER bees communicate information about food sources by means of a dance in which the direction is given by the angle which the dancing bee makes with the vertical1–3. The bees must use this angle relative to some reference outside the hive. They do this by orienting to the polarization of the sky1,3.

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  1. Research School of Physical Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, PO Box 4, Canberra, ACT, 2600

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SNYDER, A., PASK, C. How Bees Navigate. Nature 239, 48–50 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/239048a0

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