Not Just Humans - Bee Memory Fades With Age Also

A new study says it isn't just human memories that fade - aging impacts the ability of honey bees to find their way home as well. Bees are typically impressive navigators, able to wend their way home through complex landscapes after visits to flowers far removed from their nests, even after three to four days of flight time. Mature bees have piloted their way to and from the hive for five to 11 days and old bees have had more than two weeks of flight time but the paper says that aging impairs the bees' ability to extinguish the memory of an unsuitable nest site even after the colony has settled in a new home.  read more

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