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Hi! So a couple of days ago, I was having lunch with my colleague Dave Edwards, and Dave told us a lot of stuff about bees. He's a bee farmer. He has beehives in his backyard, and this couple of stuff he told us was amazing.

He says the word "make a beeline for it" — "make a beeline for it" — actually has a meaning. You make a beeline towards something because bees fly in a straight line.

So what he said was, when they find a source of water, they will do some kind of a dance, and in that dance, they will tell the other bees the direction in which to fly, and the relative direction is based on the angle of the sun. So they do this dance, and somehow that dance conveys sort of the coordinates, and then they take off. And if you stand behind the beehive, they fly in one line. They fly in a straight line towards that direction that the dancing bee has told them to fly.

And when they find the water, they go there, and on the way back, you can just stand behind the beehive, and they will come right back to the beehive. It's amazing.

Make a beeline for it. Brilliant. Bye!