Bees Can’t Find Food in Dirty Air
That means humans could go hungry, too. The post Bees Can’t Find Food in Dirty Air appeared first on Nautilus.
by Lina Zeldovich
Sep 18, 2023
3 minutes
When foraging for flowers, bees search for the familiar scents that blooms puff out into the air to attract them. Scientists call these little fragrant air pockets “odor plumes.” Once bees detect an odor plume, they start following it, flying from side to side to navigate to wherever the odor is strongest—scientists call this “casting”—until they land on a flower.
“If you think of a flower, it’s basically acting as a message beacon,”
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