How do bees self-organise?
Simplifying Complexity
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The Role of Local Rules in the Evolution of Bees
The experiments are they're done in our lab. So we bring in a swarm of honeybees for about 10,000 bees and a queen to the lab. And then we can see what the bees do, how much they send,. How they explore the environment and eventually also aggregate around the queen. Do they basically behave in the same way as the model predicts? Yeah, exactly. It's in really good agreement. When we analyze our experiment, we see that the bees indeed sent. They produce those chemicals in an efficient direction.
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