Fun Fact: When building combs in the darkness of the hive bees don't use visual sense.They have cushions of sensory hairs at all their joints which are stimulated by gravity to move like a pendulum or lever relative to one another. This aids the bee to detect the in which direction the force of gravity acts.
(taken from Jurgen Tautz book The Buzz about Bees - this book has incredible macro photography of the bees).
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