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In the Bee Lab at Harvey Mudd College, we study more than just bees. We're interested in how groups of animals evolve to coordinate behavior. Honey bees, for example, search out flowers and use their famous dance to tell nestmates where to go. By recruiting more bees to the best flowers, dancing helps the group collect food more efficiently. Using mathematical models, computer simulation, and lab and field experiments with bees and ants, we explore how communication shapes collective behavior.
05/15/2026
On Sunday, Bee Lab researcher Diya will be graduating from Harvey Mudd College -- an exciting, though slightly scary, event! In her last HMC Bee Lab blog post, she writes about a much more painful rite of passage practiced by the Sateré-Mawé people of Brazil with Bullet Ants: https://hmcbee.blogspot.com/2026/05/coming-of-age-with-ants-satere-mawe.html
04/17/2026
If you closely at what seems like a w**d, you may notice a beautiful Fibonacci spiral of flowers. In the latest blog post from my Ecology Lab's Natural History series, Aabhas writes about the Common Fiddleneck and its striking form. https://hmcbee.blogspot.com/2026/04/fiddling-with-fiddlenecks-pondering.html Harvey Mudd College
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