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https://www.science.org/content/article/bees-just-did-something-no-other-insect-has-been-shown-do

Some researchers worked with bumble bees and tried to determine if they
could combine learned behaviors to accomplish a task. They associated a flower with a sugar snack and in a separate set of experiments they let
the bee play with a ball with no flower present. They then put up
barriers where the bee could be introduced to a flower, but it was too
high for the bee to reach. Then they allowed the bee to go to the
section with a ball, but the flower could not be observed by the bee in
that section. The bee had to roll the ball to the flower containing
section so that it could climb up on the ball and reach the sugar
solution. 23 out of 30 bees got the ball to the flower on the first
try. They claim that the bees had to assess the situation and use their
past experience to accomplish the task.

Honey bees have memory skills, and can communicate those memories to
others so that they can direct other bees to specific locations outside
of the hive. The bees have to recall where the specific location is, communicate that location to others, and the other bees have to
understand what the first bee is telling them and act on that
information to get to the described target location.

Bee brains are thought to be composed of around a million neurons while
the human brain is estimated to consist of around 86 billion neurons.
Bees can do a lot with a little.

Ron Okimoto

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