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Bees go with the flow

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Honeybees tell their hivemates how much scenery they should fly past, not how far they should fly.

A bee measures how far it has travelled by how much scenery it has flown past. By jamming this navigation system, researchers have shown that bees incorporate this measurement into the dances that alert their nestmates to food.

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  1. Esch,H. E., Zhang, S., Srinivasan, M. V. & Tautz, J. Honeybee dances communicate distances measured by optic flow. Nature 411,581-583(2001).

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Whitfield, J. Bees go with the flow. Nature (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/news010531-9

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