Honey Bee Perception (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Honey Bee Perception

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Researchers can trick a honey bee into thinking she has traveled a longer or shorter distance through a tunnel that leads to a food source by varying the pattern on the tunnel walls. A busy pattern, as seen here, is perceived as a longer distance than a sparse pattern.

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Photo provided by Jürgen Tautz from his book "The Buzz About Bees: Biology of a Super Organism."

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