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Bumblebees outwit robotic spiders

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Scientists have found that bumblebees learn from their "near-death" encounters with crab spiders and adapt their future foraging strategies.

They watched real bees in an artificial meadow - containing yellow "flowers" and robotic crab spiders.

Bees that had been "captured" spent longer inspecting flowers during subsequent foraging trips.

This looped video shows how the robotic spiders initially caught the bees.

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