Bees can learn, remember, think and make decisions

Remember a nature special about spiders changed the patterns of their webs because the bees learned to avoid the ones that caught their sisters.

I suppose that means spiders can learn as well?

Bees: One of the best known architects in the world building perfect geodesic shelters with less materials and maximum efficiency

To be honest, I'm surprised this isn't obvious.

All you have to do is go out to your garden, find stuff that has flowered, and watch a bee work to come to this assumption on your own as one will methodically visit every flower (often of an individual species), sometimes spending less than a second at each to determine if it has pollen or not, collect all it can while showing an impressive mastery of spatial awareness (while flying) and then return home with its payload.

This is why AI is an oxy moron in terms of our own intelligence is implemented via the biology of our brain re-using sensor cell signals in a new way.

An example, our geo-spatial sensory signals are re-used to organize memories and that then serves to act as emphasis filter.

Or in short words our intelligence is not from neurons but from re-using our sensor cell signal circuits in new ways.

Perspective: 1/100,000th the # neurons of a human.

My brother in law is a bee keeper and we were able to catch 2 wild honey bees swarms this year. A couple days after they swarm he takes them him and marks the queen. This is so they'll know if it’s someone else’s swarm from near by.

Another thing he does is break apart large hives. He’ll keep them a few miles away so they don’t go back to the original hive. When he brings them over them will do these figure 8’s and start orienting themselves with the sun. Very cool to watch.

> However, bees can see hidden ultraviolet floral patterns that are invisible to us, and those patterns lead the bees to flowers’ nectar.

The article mentions this hidden ultraviolet floral pattern that is invisible to us; but is there a way we can reveal that using UV cameras or similar? I'd love to see this pattern.

It's fascinating to think that flowers might have evolve to optimise themselves to the vision of bees in a way we are completely unaware of with the naked eye.

Honeybees are the only other animal that votes! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8705048-honeybee-democra... We could learn a thing or two from them.

We have language and writing o hand down our knowledge - it implies that each colony has to learn the same lesson over and over for each generation.

That is the main reason besides short lifespan why celephods despite their intelligence does not rule this planet.

Thought that said 'beers' on first glance. All prepared to be worried I was killing a sentient being, then, oh, bees. Bees are cool; I just chill around bees and we're good.

Piers, "Mute"

Ok. But are they stochastic bees?

Does this mean they have souls ?

Do bees have a soul?

Humanities majors got heart attack after reading this