Common Honey Bees Can Be Trained to Recognize Individual People

This is creepy news for those of us who are allergic to, and thoroughly freaked out by, the little stripey buzzers.

How do bees do it? Bee brains are just one-twenty thousandth the size of a human brain. The experiment implies that there is a simpler solution to the problem of face recognition than has been discovered so far by biometric security researchers.

(Source: livescience.com)