Just like how humans recognize faces, bees are born with an innate ability to find and remember flowers
We’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 have an innate “flower template” in their minds, which allows them to know exactly what they are looking for even if they’ve never seen a flower before.
Just like how humans recognise faces, bees are born with an innate ability to find and remember flowers
We’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 have an innate “flower template” in their minds, which allows them to know exactly what they are looking for even if they’ve never seen a flower before.
Just like how humans recognise faces, bees are born with an innate ability to find and remember flowers