Learning From Bee Flight

Flight is one of those areas that humans are far behind in. I suppose we have reached space, but we just don’t have the agility that birds or bats have. Or bees…

Their footage showed that no matter how flat or steep the surface, bees slow to a hover at 13 millimeters (about half an inch) away from wherever they’re going to land. That suggests, Srinivasan said, that the insects are somehow using their eyes to measure that specific distance.

“We don’t know how they’re doing it,” he said, “But they’re doing it.”

via Bees Always Have a Safe Landing : Discovery News.