Fascinating Compund Bee Eye Structure

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For simplicity, we refer in this article to worker bees of the Apis genus.

What Is a Bee Compound Eye? The bee compound eye also allows the bee to detect if the light is polarized.

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What Is a Bee Compound Eye? A bee can fly up to six km (3.7mi) from its hive and find its way back accurately using these special eyes. 

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How Does a Bee Compound Eye Work? The bee’s compound eyes allow it to detect flowers by color, and in many cases detect nectar in the flowers.

How Does a Bee Compound Eye Work? Flowers are beautiful billboard plants put up asking bees to pollinate them.

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How do Bee Compound Eyes Help in Decision-Making? You will notice the way a bee approaches a flower – it will hover, and look at the flower, and this allows the compound eyes

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How do Bee Compound Eyes Help in Decision-Making? Once the bee has learned the look and smell of a specific flower type, they become faster and faster at making decisions to approach the flower.

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We can be grateful that bees have compound eyes, as this allows them to work with us to improve our environment for bees and for us. 

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