This article is almost 20 years old. It's pretty interesting on it's own, but a lot of honeybee research has happened in the meantime. I would be curious to s

This article is almost 20 years old. It's pretty interesting on it's own, but a lot of honeybee research has happened in the meantime. I would be curious to see any follow-ups on the magnetic / quantum effects on honeybee learning, though. Bees generally code direction using polarized light, and they measure distance using the optical flow of visual information. This data is not always highly accurate, so they compensate with smell. Anyone who has kept bees knows that they are absolutely brilliant creatures, but can also be pretty dumb. They have evolved their highly-tuned behaviors over millions of years. If you try moving a hive a distance of only a few meters, they can have a lot of trouble finding it, showing how critical their optical map of the world is for them to find things. Anyone interested in current honeybee research, I recommend looking into the work of Thomas Seeley. He's written a few very good books over the last 20 years that bring together modern behavioral research. http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/seeley.shtml http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/seeley.shtml