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Bees reveal flight secrets

"Scientists at The Vision Centre have fooled the honeybee into revealing its flying secrets by tethering the creature and running background images past its eyes. This tricks the bee into thinking it is ‘flying’ and it moves its body into a posture for rapid flight – even though both it and the air are still." Honeybee flight: a novel ‘streamlining’ response,
The Journal of Experimental Biology
, Volume 214, Number 13, p.2215, (2011)
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