Listen: Bees can recognize human faces

Bees can recognize human faces, but there’s a bit more to the story, says David Tarpy.

Recently Tarpy, a professor of applied ecology at North Carolina State University and all-around beekeeping expert, sat down with the Audio Abstract podcast to talk bees.

One of the questions that came up when talking about how bees see the world was whether they recognize faces.

You can read Tarpy’s answer below.

In the full podcast episode, Tarpy also digs into topics that run the gamut from how many bees there are in the US (approximately), to how bad their eyesight is, and what happens to drones at the end of the honey-making season. Listen below:

Download the podcast transcript.