蜜芽传媒

The honey bee. Different flowers open at different times of the day, and need different techniques to get at the nectar. But a bee can remember - it links the position of the sun to the type of blossom and how to reach the nectar. Bees can store data for up to six different blooms - but they can only cope with one kind of flower at any one time of day. If the sun's at five o'clock, it must be yellow daisies. And if the sun starts to go away, it must be time to go home. These honey bees live their lives on permanent display. An observation hive in a museum is a window on to a mysterious world. Normally unseen in the depth of the hive, bees discuss their day among the flowers, by dancing. This dance language tells other bees the direction and distance of the flowers and the quality of the nectar. And this whole, complex communication system is driven by a few tens of thousands of neurons packed into space the size of a grain of sugar. The brain of a bee - a masterpiece of micro-circuitry.