The bee-research team went on to confirm via polymerase chain reaction that hives with colony collapse disorder were far more likely to have IAPV.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The research team hopes the simulated bee brain will produce a robot that can make decisions about what it senses rather than just carry out pre-programmed tasks.

BBC: Bee brains help to make robots smarter

The research team is still in the process of studying the patterns of bee flight.

BBC: Mapping the flight of the bumblebee