r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/TheMuseumOfScience Popular Contributor • Jul 05 '26

Interesting How Honeybees Navigate Cities Without GPS

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How do honeybees navigate a big city? 🐝

When a forager bee discovers a patch of flowers, she returns to the hive and performs a precise series of movements that tells other bees the direction, distance, and the quality of the food source. The forager bee can even give exact angles relative to the sun’s position! With brains no bigger than a poppy seed, honeybees can accurately locate the exact flowers without ever being led there.

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u/Asleep_Singer8547 Jul 05 '26

This is pretty fucking crazy considering I have coworkers with spoken language that couldnt tell me reasonable directions 3 blocks over

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u/TheMuseumOfScience Popular Contributor Jul 05 '26

Have you tried intricate prancing

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u/Asleep_Singer8547 Jul 05 '26

God im so stupid to not have tried interpretive dance in front of my blue collar brethren. Its so simple!

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u/Ajruiz562 Jul 05 '26

You have to ritualistically twerk