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Bumblebees bank to land on moving flowers, study shows

Original: 🐝 NEW: # Bumblebees returning to a hive were filmed landing on a # flower model sliding sideways twice a second. Three h

Researchers filmed bumblebees landing on a flower model sliding sideways twice a second, capturing 48 landings with three high-speed cameras and rebuilding them in three dimensions. The bees banked to match the platform's motion, lagging slightly behind it, and mathematical models were used to explain the manoeuvre.

Why now: The elegant combination of high-speed 3D filming and modelling of an everyday insect feat has caught attention among science enthusiasts.

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• 🐝 NEW: # Bumblebees returning to a hive were filmed landing on a # flower model sliding sideways twice a second. Three high-speed cameras recorded 48 landings, rebuilt in three dimensions. # Bees banked to match the platform’s motion, lagging slightly behind it, and models… · tksst@fediscience.org · 9

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