How are bees so precise?
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it is natural for them
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Of course they can. I once bought a round of beer at a local bar, where I was served by a bee who was working part time as a barmaid. The bee overcharged me by £5. I don't even think it was a girl bee, but it was difficult to tell as the bar was quite dark. That was the last time I was stung by a bee in a bar though, as if I see a bee behind the bar in a pub, I just leave without buying a drink. Just remember, bees are untrustworthy bar stewards.
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You are correct that optimizing the comfort of beehives can optimize bees' happiness and productivity.  I would suggest reading up at a site like this \n\nhttp://www.beekeeping.com/_menus_us/index.htm?menu.htm&0\n\nand browse through some of the vendors, specifically the Equipment section.  The right beehives are dependent on the strain of bee, the environment and climate in which you live, and your preferences.\n\nBest wishes!
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As they are social insects and they live by division of labor and work in unison. They are closely knit by pheromones.
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They are pretty accurate. They can be fooled, but you have to have a lot of self control and know what you are doing to trick it. Most of the time the best people can do is just give inconclusive results, not pass off a lie as truth or vice versa.
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Learning how to walk and stepping on a bee and being stung by it.
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no, not true but some bees yes.
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This article says they can easily be fooled.  If so, they do not work well:\n\nhttp://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s585792.htm\n\nOf course, the technology has probably improved, in the last 4 years.  Still, I remain skeptical about prospects that an automated system might be reliable; not generating false matches nor mismatches.
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It all depends what you're looking for and where you're going to try and find it.  Remember you catch more bees with honey, so just be your sweet self and you'll do fine.
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A whole lot of bees together?\n\nThat's a "SWARM."
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Many eusocial insects, including the honey bee, Apis mellifera, which is illustrated here, reproduce by swarming. Honey bee colonies swarm in the spring, sending the old queen and about half the colony's workers in search of a new nest. The old nest is inherited by one of the queen's daughters. Swarms generally settle on a tree branch near the old nest; scout bees then go out in search of a new nesting site. As many sites may be found, a method of choosing the best one is necessary. Scouts dance on the surface of the swarm, indicating the location of the sites.Over time, a consensus emerges among the bees concerning the best nesting site, as scouts who have found poorer sites stop dancing, while ever-increasing numbers of bees dance for the better sites.
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Honey bees generally only sting to protect their hives. The bees that are capable of stinging are the female worker bees. Bee stingers are barbed and, after being thrust into the skin, are left in the skin but are pulled out of the abdomen of the bee. Poison sacs are attacked to the stinger and pump poison into the wound. Some people are very allergic to the poison and must be taken to the hospital. Others can get by with applying ice packs, calamine lotion, or taking antihistimines. The bee dies after losing its stinger, but you probably won't! \n\nThe widest part of this stinger is about 40 micrometers.
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Here's an answer to that question from an entomologist.
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When bees communicate to each other, they communicate the position of nearby flowers.  The directions are relative to the sun's position in the sky.  But the bees are able to communicate this, taking into account that the sun's position has changed in the time it took them to fly back to the hive!\n\nThat still blows me away.  There's so much we have to learn about the animal world.
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By an Optical Mouse. They are cheap and long-lasting. They track movements using laser beams. No ball-problems! Accurate too. Best is that they do not require any cleaning.
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From the behavior of bees. When a bee finds nectar it returns to the hive and displays to the other bees the direction of the find. The other bees then 'make a beeline' for it.
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Birds and bees? There are birds and bees? What do birds and bees do together?