Bees can count. They’re not going to be doing your taxes anytime soon, though after a little bit of evolution and a reading of the tax code, it’s not completely off the table. A new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B adds weight to a long-running debate about whether honeybees actually understand numbers or are just really good at spotting visual patterns. Some have argued that bees weren’t actually counting at all, just reacting to how busy or complex an image looked. Videos by VICE A team of researchers led by Monash University revisited earlier experiments, but this time they tried to see the data the way a bee would. That meant taking into account all the limitations inherent in a bee’s eyes, which perceive the world with a lot less detail than human vision. Previous studies didn’t seem to fully take this into account, as they stacked the deck by using images with finer details that bees can’t fully process.…