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A trained worker honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) drinks sugar water from an artificial feeder placed inside an experimental tunnel. Honeybee foragers are able to inform their hivemates of the location of a food source by performing a 'waggle-dance' on the surface of their hive. Si, Srinivasan and Zhang (pp. 1265-1273) investigate the properties of the honeybee's distance-measuring mechanism by training foragers to fly through tunnels lined with different visual patterns. Analysis of the dances performed by these foragers at the hive gives an indication of the bees' perception of distance travelled. Photograph by Jeff Wilson, RSBS Photography, ANU, 2003.
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