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As Busy as a Bee
Have you ever wondered about bee’s social lives and how they communicate with each other? Honey bees and bumblebees are referred to as eusocial. This means that they have an advanced level of organ…
Bees and wasps can recognise and learn different faces
Despite having tiny brains they appear to visually process faces in a similar way to how we do, according to Adrian Dyer, an associate professor from RMIT University in Australia.
Surprisingly simple logic explains amazing bee abilities
Bumblebees and Pavlov's dogs have something in common: Both can learn to associate two things they've never seen together before
Why Is the Bat So Misunderstood?
Bees are getting all the attention, but bats are equally deserving of our sympathy
How We Use Birds to Hunt for Honey
What hangs upside down and buzzes like a bee?
Greater mouse-eared bats make a hornet-like buzzing sound that repels owls, researchers reported in Current Biology. A variety of animals mimic other animals to ward off or evade predators, but the bat study may be the first documented case of acoustic mimicry in a mammal, says co-author Danilo Russo.
Huge Honey Bee Nest We Removed from a Soffit
This is a well-established colony of bees. Look how many combs they've built and how much space in the soffit they're using.
Bees Can Learn Symbols Associated With Counting, New Experiment Suggests
A new experiment in which bees were trained to associate symbols with numbers suggests we can communicate with insects in ways not thought possible.
Did you know a queen bee lays 1,500 eggs a day?
Surprising behavior of bees during total solar eclipses discovered
A buzzworthy study looks at the strange actions of bees.
Before There Were Birds or Bees, This Is How Trilobites Made Babies
The discovery of clasper limbs in a fossil suggests that some species of the ancient arthropods reproduced much like modern horseshoe crabs.
What Cities Can Do to Help Birds and Bees Survive
Pollinators—the wildlife that shuffle pollen between flowers—are being decimated. But they may still thrive with enough help from urban humans.
Bees learn faster when they're punished for getting things wrong
Researchers from Toulouse in France said that bees were able to distinguish between numbers and even understand the concept of zero, despite having tiny brains.
Bees Make a Ridiculously Cute "Whoop" Noise When They're Startled
Honeybees have long been known to communicate using a "whooping" noise that's inaudible to human ears.
Bees have human-like ability to link symbols to numbers, study finds
This may lead to ‘exciting new pathways for communication across species’, says Dr Adrian Dyer
If you punish bees for mistakes, they're even better at maths
We've been underrating the mathematical ability of honey bees, and it's all due to how we train them.
Bee Techniques Could Help Drones Stop Crashing Into Things
Hello, hive mind: Bees can do basic arithmetic, a new study finds
The oval-shaped brain of a honeybee is roughly the size of a single sesame seed. It contains fewer than 1 million neurons, while the human brain contains 100 billion.
11 Ways to Cope with Anxiety When You’re Busy
It is as much a matter of perspective as strategy.
Finding Balance in Busy
Some practical ways to calm the storm in our everyday world.
Are You Too Busy to Be Yourself?
