![Researchers have been super-gluing little barcodes to bumblebees in order to track their movements. James Crall/Harvard University Picture of a bee with a barcode on it](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk581/files/styles/sf_landscape_16x9/public/images/article/bee.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=dh1-nFPK)
Stacey Combes and "Why These Bumblebees Are Wearing Itty-Bitty QR Codes" in Wired
Assistant Professor Stacey Combes and colleagues put tiny QR codes on the backs of bumblebees to reveal their social lives. The system--called BEEtag--allows researcher to track the movements of hundreds of bees in a hive through the day and night. Combes' research with former Harvard graduate student James Crall, published in Nature Communications, is the subject of a new Wired article, "Why These Bumblebees Are Wearing Itty-Bitty QR Codes."