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Before bees start foraging, they spend some time just flying around the hive, gradually going further from the hive as they do so. They learn the location of the hive using visual landmarks in the immediate area and also take the opportunity to learn the position of large landmarks such as solitary trees, church towers, and the like.
Bees can see plane polarized light which allows them to locate the sun even if the sky is covered with cloud. They navigate away from the hive using the sun as a reference. They are also aware of time and can compensate for the movement of the sun during the day.
They are very adept at calculating the correct direction back to the hive even if they have been flying an erratic course from one source of flowers to another.

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When they first start to leave the hive, a bee takes orientation flights to learn the local area around the hive. As they go further on their foraging flights, they navigate using landmarks. They also use the sun as a point of reference. When there is cloud cover they can detect the polarization of sunlight to see where the sun is.

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Bees rely on a variety of factors to navigate their way from and back to the hive. They mostly use landmarks but also the angle of the sun can play a part.

If you watch a bee coming out of a hive in the Spring it will often hover around above the hive getting its bearings before flying off. This is because it has been stuck inside during the cold weather and needs to check the layout around the hive so that it will recognize the right one on its return.

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Bees and wasps use sunlight as a compass. They know the direction of the sun with respect to the direction that they are flying so they can find their way back.

Bees rely primarily on the Sun as a reference point for navigation, keeping track of their flight direction with respect to the Sun, and factoring out the effects of the winds that may be blowing them off course. The Sun is a difficult landmark for navigation because of its apparent motion from east to west, but bees are born knowing how to compensate for that. When a cloud obscures the Sun, bees use the patterns of ultraviolet polarized light in the sky to determine the Sun's location. When an overcast obscures both Sun and sky, bees automatically switch to a third navigational system based on their mental map of the landmarks in their home range.

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by detecting polarized light.

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i belive with their wings

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It flies.

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By flying

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drones

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