Video 1 (VIDEO)

Queen Mary University of London

Caption

This video demonstrates how bees gradually develop repeatable routes between artificial flowers. It shows all the foraging flights undertaken by a single bee. Where the bee repeatedly flies along the same path, sections of route can be seen to light up, whereas abandoned flight paths slowly fade away. The filled blue circles represent the positions of the 5 artificial flowers and the open circle represents the nest. Video runs at 600x real speed.

Credit

Joseph Woodgate

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