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The mysterious cognitive abilities of bees


Bee Navigation | PBS LearningMedia

Explore the world of honeybees—how they communicate information about food sources with their hivemates, and how, once in flight, they find their way to the ...

WHAT DOES THE HONEYBEE SEE? HOW DO WE KNOW?

Generalisation and cognitive abilities in bee vision . ... Turner (1908) described the curious way that bees turn back and look (TBL) to acquire or update ...

Andrew Barron Lab

Honey bees are especially illuminating for behavioural research. They display social structures, communication systems and cognitive abilities that rival ...

Honey Bee Health Grants | Pollinator.org

The second approach investigates Varroa parasitism, nutritional deprivation, or a combination of the two stressors during brood development on adult bee ...

The Consciousness of Bees - The Washington Post | PDF - Scribd

Bees exhibit surprisingly sophisticated cognitive abilities such as learning, problem-solving, and memory according to recent experiments.

The Role of Learning in Honey Bee Waggle Dance | Evolution News

In that case the basic melodies of the songs are innate, but performance improves as the birds hear adults. Bees have also been shown to be ...

Part 3: Taking The Sting Out Of Bees - Fun Facts About Stingless Bees

Our third instalment of delving into cognition and other cool facts about highly social insects. The grand finale of our trilogy is the ...

Transfer of visual learning between a virtual and a real environment ...

To study visual learning in honey bees, we developed a virtual reality (VR) system in which the movements of a tethered bee walking ...

REPRESENTATIONS OF, BY AND WITHIN HONEYBEES

plausible set of meta-cognitive capacities within bees, it is not yet clear that research has evidenced linguistic reflexivity in bee communication43. The ...

Miniature Brains of Bees and Wasps Recognize Faces | Sci.News

Humans have a remarkable ability to detect and visually identify conspecifics on the basis of their faces, which is a crucial capacity in ...

Bees May Understand Zero, a Concept That Took Humans Millennia ...

One practical implication for the research lies in the development of artificial intelligence; Dyer thinks reverse-engineering how the brains of ...

Not Only Can Honeybees Count, They Can Also Do Math

In a paper out today in Science Advances, a team led by Adrian Dyer at RMIT University in Melbourne put the honey-makers' arithmetic skills to ...

Power lines may mess with honeybees' behavior and ability to learn

At both EMF levels, exposed honeybees were slower than unexposed bees in learning to associate the smell with the shock. Only a third of the ...

The Mind of a Bee by Lars Chittka, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®

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.

Bee Facts: 155 Amazing Facts about Bees and Beekeeping

Honey bees can taste with their feet! The claws on a honey bee's foot are especially attuned to salt. Honey bee eyes are textured with the same ...

The Swarm Intelligence of Piping Hot and Boisterous Honey Bees

Bees are fascinating intelligent and sentient insects whose cognitive and emotional lives are currently receiving the attention they have long ...

Landing on Autopilot — Communicating Psychological Science

Beekeeping for dummies. Dyer, AG. (2012). The mysterious cognitive abilities of bees: why models of visual processing need to consider experience and ...

Solving the Mysteries of Honey Bees with Thomas Seeley

Without a doubt, it is Apis mellifera, the familiar honey bee. Their complex colony organization, powers of communication, diverse work skills, ...

Dr. James C. Nieh - Danger, Dopamine, and Dance: New insights ...

"Karl von Frisch referred to the waggle dance as the "magic well" for the insights that it provides not only on honey bees, but on the general cognitive ...

Bees' Salt-Sensing Feet Explain Swimming Pool Mystery - NBC News

Thanks to its impressive navigational skills, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) is a model organism used by researchers to understand the mechanisms ...