The honey trap
13 October 2008
Smart bumblebees at Queen Mary University of London show science writer and broadcaster Sue Nelson how to avoid getting eaten by predatory spiders.
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Sue finds out more about a robotic spider device designed by Dr Thomas Ings.
He has installed many of them in an artificial meadow to study how bees learn to avoid crab spiders camouflaged inside flowers.
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