Just like how humans recognise faces, bees are born with an innate ability to find and remember flowers
- Written by: Scarlett Howard, Postdoctoral research fellow, Deakin University
Scarlett Howard, Author providedWe’ve all watched a honeybee fly past us and land on a nearby flower. But how does she know what she’s looking for?
And when she leaves the hive for the first time, how does she even know what a flower looks like?
Our paper, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, set out to discover whether bees...