A honeybee on Hampstead Heath, London Michael Wald / Alamy
A examine of the waggle dances of honeybees reveals that bees in central London don’t need to fly as far to search out meals as these residing in farmland exterior town.
“We knew that large cities had been good for bees, however our examine is contributing to exhibiting why,” says Elli Leadbeater at Royal Holloway, College of London. “There’s extra forage out there.”
In the summertime of 2017, Leadbeater and her colleague Ash Samuelson visited 20 hives each two weeks to file waggle dances. The …
