How bumble bees learn where their nests are
Channel: The Company of Biologists
Date: 2014-07-31

Bumblebees have to learn the relative positions of objects in order to navigate homes and now a team of scientists from the UK has shown how the insects allow their heads to rotate slightly while circling their nest to distiguish between near by and distant objects.

The original research can be accessed at http://jeb.biologists.org/content/217/15/2633.abstract