Sunday 17 December 2017

Radar tracking reveals how bees develop a route between flowers


Date:  December 11, 2017
Source:  Queen Mary University of London

Summary:
As bees gain foraging experience they continually refine both the order in which they visit flowers and the flight paths they take between flowers to generate better and better routes, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London.

Despite this, bees can be tricked into taking tempting shortcuts between flowers even at the cost of increasing the overall distance they have to fly.


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