Bees can see much better than thought: scientists: HumSub.TV
Bees can see much better than thought: scientists: HumSub.TV: Bees have much better eyesight than previously thought, scientists said Friday, allowing them to buzz away from approaching predators and navigate safely.
Researchers already knew bees could see colours, but now they have discovered their vision is 30 percent clearer than earlier studies showed.
Steven Wiederman, from the University of Adelaide’s Medical School, said all previous research had been done in dimly lit laboratories, so his team studied western honey bees in bright daylight.
“Bright daylight and dark laboratories are two completely different environments, resulting in anatomical and physiological changes in the resolution of the eye,” he said in a study published in Scientific Reports.
Scientists took electrophysiological recordings of the neural responses in photoreceptors in a bee’s eyes — the detectors of light in the retina.
“We found that in the frontal part of the eye, where the resolution is maximised, honey bees can clearly see objects that are as small as… the width of your thumb when you stretch your arm out in front of you,” said Elisa Rigosi from Sweden’s Lund University.
“This is 30 percent better eyesight than has been previously recorded.”
She added that the smallest object a bee can detect, but not clearly, amounted to “one-third of your thumb width at arm’s length”, which was five times smaller than previously thought.
“These new results suggest that bees have the chance to see a potential predator, and thus escape, far earlier than what we thought previously,” she said.
“(They can) perceive landmarks in the environment better than we expected, which is useful for navigation and thus for survival.”
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