If a bee flies on to a train and exits 10 miles away, can the little worker find its way back home?

wait what? does this mean something else from what you’re asking?

Aww this is a cute question ^_^
Well I would say that the bee finds another clan and works with them

I read “worker” as “wanker.” Oops.

And I think he could get back home, provided he didn’t run out of energy first.

I don’t think so. I believe there sense of smells finds there way back to the hive. 15 miles would be too far.

but if he could. He would fly in a perfectly strait line back to hive.

He wouldn’t join another hive.

according to this
bees orientate by spatial memory. If displaced they will undertake, quote
” initial straight flights in which they fly the course that they were on when captured (foraging bees) or that they learned during dance communication (recruited bees); (ii) slow search flights with frequent changes of direction in which they attempt to ‘‘get their bearings’’

Its, ITS, ITS; straight, STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT, their, THEIR, THEIR

Bees always swarm in huge swarms: I would not like to be on that train with a swarm.But I suppose an accidental bee would be on his own.

So bees recruit? May the little feller can join a new queendom.

@tinyfaery
recruited by bees of the own hive, in the sense that the bee that found food dances to tell the location and directions to the food to nearby bees that then go to the food themselves and are thus “recruited”

I’m pretty sure they could cover the distance if they could find where they came from.

it sounds like the bee was trying to run away. maybe he doesn’t want to find his way back home

This week I saw a bee fly out the doors of a train. I wondered what its life was like after the trip on the train.

I would assume 10 miles would be too far to navigate back via sense of smell; especially when the bee probably wouldn’t be aware of it’s entirely new location.

It would probably fly in search patterns and eventually die.

Good question. I wonder if another hive would even accept it. I’ve always wondered what would happen if I took an ant from one colony and let it go with another.

@AstroChuck: Why not try it? (And report back.)

@gailcalled
The scent. Each hive has a unique chemical identifier, the bee worlds version of IFF, but in that case every scent other than the home hive is classified as hostile.

@gailcalled- Because I’d feel guilty if the ants attacked the newbie.

cutest question ever, even though i hate flies

i must have a mental deficiency. sorry, i thought this said if a FLY enters a train. forgive me plz