'How do honey bees measure distance?'

摘要

It has been widely accepted that honey bee scouts measure the distance to a food source they have found as they fly from the hive based on the amount of work(flying) done. However, there have been several papers in the 1990s and another published this past February, all using ingenious experiments, that reject the energy consumption hypothesis and indicate that the distance is measured visually by the bees as they fly over the landscape.