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#honeybees — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. "Efficient robot navigation inspired by honeybee learning flights", Ou et al. 2026 nature.com/articles/s41586-026

    " ‘Bee-Nav’, a highly efficient navigation strategy inspired by the visual learning flights of honeybees. In equivalent robotic learning flights, a tiny neural network is trained to map omnidirectional images to a home vector based on path integration. After learning, the robot can fly far away from home, come straight back using path integration and cancel integration drift using the visual homing network"

    "In real-world indoor and outdoor experiments, a small drone successfully returned to within 0.5 m of home for 100% of 30–110-m flights and 70% of 200–600-m flights in windy conditions, using 3.4-kB and 42-kB neural networks, respectively."

    Honeybees still do better, but hey, it's a good start. Now imagine we had the whole honeybee #connectome mapped.

    #neuroscience #robotics #honeybees #drones

  2. Hopefully my bees but they could be previously swarmed my bees from elsewhere, or possibly someone else has bees or some of my bees that have swarmed. Have I mentioned that my bees have swarmed a lot?

    #bees #honeybees #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #blackberryblossoms #HimalayanBlackberries #PinkFlowers #June2 #pollinators

  3. The new hive with the caught swarm has pollen going in and the bait hive might be back to scout bees and no robbing.

    #beekeeping #bees #beehive #BaitHive #BeeSwarm #apiary #SwarmTrap #April21 #HoneyBees