Magnetic Bees: In a collaboration between Ecology and Materials Science, we have found that >90% of bees are ferromagnetic and presumably have the capacity to sense the geomagnetic field
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Science Advances
Broad presence of ferromagnetism in bees and relationship to phylogeny, natural history, and sociality
Ferromagnetism, and likely magnetoreception, is widespread and predates the phylogenetic origin of the bees.
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