The busy bee is the stuff of legend but it is fast becoming an essential part of contemporary science as farmers, the defense industry, and pollution fighters investigate ways to organize bee navigation and communication for other uses. Bees can determine how far they fly from the hive to forage for nectar and pollen, registering the sights they pass and translating that knowledge into distance, according to researchers from Australia and Japan. Karl Frisch, an animal behaviorist, ...