Okay, but where?

[solarbird]

I was reading a story about bee recognition of human faces. (Short form: they do, and pretty accurately. For a few days, anyway.) In it, the researcher was referenced saying:

Dyer said that if bees can learn to recognize humans in photos, then they reasonably might also be able to recognize real-life faces. On the other hand, he remarked, this probably isn’t the explanation for an adage popular in some parts of the world—that you shouldn’t kill a bee because its nestmates will remember and come after you.

So now I'm wondering:

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[sculpin.livejournal.com]

At least, I'm in Seattle. I'm not quite sure where I picked it up.

*handwave* pheromones *handwave*

[sculpin.livejournal.com]

What I do remember now is that the nestmates weren't supposed to remember you visually so much as that they were supposed to be able to smell the dead bee on you for a few days. Perhaps that's a more scientific-sounding gloss on the old superstition.