We learned in class about how scout honeybees search for food and confer information regarding direction and distance to the rest of the colony. Olfactory lateralization might allow for worker bees to better imitate the directions of the scout bees because certain olfactory cues to where the food can be found are more easily imitated when all bees have the same levels of lateralized olfaction. Bees are social animals and in order to pass off information from one individual to another, similar lateralization of senses and brain function must play a role in understanding that information.
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