The Mind of a Bee

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Bees could be trained to solve maze puzzles (e.g., turn right if the entrance is blue, left if yellow) and retained the memory for life. Little leafcutter bee has finished building a nest in the tubular trolley handle and is foraging on everlasting peas in the glorious hot sunshine we enjoyed for a few days. Apiary News. He thinks the level of sophisticated cognition bees exhibit means it’s unlikely they do not feel any emotions at all. “Sentience is about the capacity to have feelings,” he says. “And what we’re seeing now is some evidence that there are these ... emotion-like states in bees.” Second thing - scientists that study living creatures without at least a little appreciation and delight in the subject come across as SUCH sociopathic assholes. Looking at YOU, Jean-Henri Fabre. Let’s see YOU see in ultraviolet, you pompous jerk. Bet your vomit tastes horrible on pancakes, you insensitive twat. Can YOU fly? There is a quote from Darwin’s research where he noted that bees sometimes copy the behaviour of “Humble bees” (didn’t know that). I smiled when I read how Darwin spelled bumble bees, since the Swedish word is “Humlor”, much closer to the word Darwin used. And “hum” is probably chosen because of how they sound when they fly.

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Bees also have a culture that can be passed down from generation to generation. However, in colder climates, it seems that cultural evolution stops in the winter because of hibernation. A Some stray findings: Bees can recognise a human face (I knew that). Bees are warm blooded and seek out warm nectar when needed to warm up – like having a cup of hot tea when feeling cold (didn’t know that). The anatomy and physiology of a worker bee’s brain and sensory systems are described in good detail. Likewise, for a bee’s learning process including information about acquisition and recall. The topic of pain is covered and we learn that, like us, insects have receptors that register tissue damage and pain but that alarm pheromones flood their nervous systems with built in painkillers making them perhaps unaware of injuries. well shoot. first off let me say a huge thank u to all those who have died trying to figure out how a bee's brain worked. it was actually just two guys but maybe there were more that didnt get recorded. bless them and rip.https://www.bing.com/search?q=top+beekeeping+blogs&cvid=c7609ca748b24b878b30bbc0cc724f50&aqs=edge.0.69i59i450l8…8.88103048j0j4&FORM=ANAB01&PC=HCTS Leafcutter Bee Update.

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I’ve referred to William Kirk’s book in an endeavour to find out the source but I’m still not sure so I’m going to have to collect some pollen for microscopy analysis. It will help me to measure the size of a pollen grain and examine its surface to give me a clue. Our blue pollen looks like queen Anne’s thimble but I am not familiar with this plant though it may grow in a nearby garden. I’ve seen blue Phacelia tanacetifolia pollen before and it may be growing locally and producing this lovely pollen. We have no local crops of phacelia but it is one of top plants for potential honey yields, and the pollen contains some of the highest protein levels in plants so it’s very desirable for honey bees. Phacelia in FIfe. Microscopy Results. Once one bee is trained, the skill spreads swiftly to the whole colony. Photograph: Razvan Cornel Constantin/AlamyThe Mind of a Bee is a fascinating book that I hope will be read and understood by as broad an audience as possible, so that the important conclusions within may be shared more widely."—Amanda Williams, Buzz about Bees The time that insects were seen as little machines, incapable of complex thought, emotions, and learning, is far behind us. We can wish for no better guide than Lars Chittka for an accessible introduction to the wonders of bee intelligence.”—Frans de Waal, author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? I have an aquaintance here in S. London who is a gardener and he is snowed under with people who want wild flower meadows in place of their lawns… Dit opzienbarende experiment is maar een van de vele die Chittka beschrijft in Het bewustzijn van de bij, zijn boek op basis van dertig jaar onderzoek. Dat bijen en hommels een zonnekompas hebben en aardmagnetisme voelen wisten we al. Het zijn zaken die hen helpen om van meer dan twee kilometer ver feilloos hun weg terug naar huis te vinden. Maar dat ze weten welke bloem net bezocht is door een andere bij, waardoor ze geen nectar meer bevat, was toch een verrassing. Blijkbaar zijn bloemen elektrisch negatief geladen en bijen positief. Wanneer een bij die bloem bezoekt wordt ze iets positiever, wat de volgende bij meteen voelt. Lars Chittka presents work ranging over many decades exploring how bees sense the world, learn, solve problems, and communicate. The purpose of the book is to suggest that bees (and likely most insects and animals of all kinds) have at least a basic form of consciousness, and are capable of many of the same feats of general intelligence we associate to human beings. This is accomplished by sharing study after study, discussing not just results and methodology, but also what the findings contribute to the big picture, and a bit of the history and context around the people doing the research.

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Honeycomb is a marvel of engineering, and if you interfere with the preferred method of placing the hexes, bees adapt in clever and beautiful ways. Bees in zero gravity on the space station made their usual hexes but didn’t angle the boxes, as they do on earth, because gravity wouldn’t make the honey leak out. Chittka makes a convincing argument for individual variability in bees personalities and why and how their choices may be affected by their size, which correlates to how much they were fed as larvae, and any other predispositions that make them better at one task or another, or more or less adventurous and relentless in their pursuit of pollen and nectar, and even their preference for one or the other. The experiments to study the bees' behaviour were really interesting. You'd think it would be easier to confuse a bee so they'd get a little lost, but they haven't been getting enough credit for how good they are at navigating the world. A wonderful read. In his latest book, The Mind of a Bee, published on 19 July, he argues that bees need our protection, not just because they are useful for crop pollination and biodiversity, but because they may be sentient beings – and humans have an ethical obligation to ensure their survival. I enjoyed listening to this book, the way it was organized in short chapters all of which culminate towards one conclusion: the complexity of bees behavior and life. At some point the author concurred that it was impossible to build a bee robot while other scholars believed that there was a hidden force behind the dynamics of bees and their ability to adapt and evolve …

Lars Chittka’s The Mind of a Bee is a mind-blowing presentation of scientific evidence and insight showing beyond any reasonable doubt that bees have awareness, memories, basic emotions, intelligence, and personalities―and that what we are doing to them and their world has not just practical but moral implications.”―Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words and Becoming Wild A radical new book argues that a bee may have a mind of its own, awareness of the world, basic emotions and intelligence. It is a bold and brave claim – but is it true? Most of us are aware of the hive mind—the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including his own pioneering work, to argue that bees have remarkable cognitive abilities. He shows that they are profoundly smart, have distinct personalities, can recognize flowers and human faces, exhibit basic emotions, count, use simple tools, solve problems, and learn by observing others. They may even possess consciousness. Bees, he discovered, learn best by watching other bees successfully complete a task, so “once you train a single individual in the colony, the skill spreads swiftly to all the bees”. second off let me say this book was a bit hard to get thru because i dont typically read nonfiction. it was interesting, but i think i prefer individual articles when reading about experiments and results. that being said- it was convenient to hav all the information in one place.