Study shows bees use visual rate of expansion of ground for perfect landings

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 05:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —An international team of researchers has found that bees use a simple visual technique when landing, either horizontally or vertically. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes how they filmed bees landing in their lab and in studying the tape discovered how it is they manage to land nearly perfectly every time.

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