A bumblebee taking a sip from one of two soaked filters affixed to a toothpick Melina Kienitz
Bumblebees can identify sugary liquids before they even take a sip.聽This ability to spot a sweet reward at a distance could mean that some of the approaches we have used to assess bee intelligence need to be re-evaluated.
鈥淢uch of what we know about insect cognition comes from work on bees,鈥 says at the University of Regensburg in Germany. In many such studies, bees choose between artificial 鈥渇lowers鈥 after being trained to associate one option with a reward such…
