The Mind of a Bee

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He began to realise some individual bees were more curious and confident than others. “You also find the odd ‘genius bee’ that does something better than all the other individuals of a colony, or indeed all the other bees we’ve tested..” You find the odd ‘genius bee’ that does something better than all the other individuals of a colony. Lars Chittka Bees may visit upwards towards 1000 flowers and each flower has it's unique mechanics in respect to the location of nectar and the perils that may befall one who is not knowledgeable. Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioural ecology at Queen Mary University, London. Related Categories

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Researchers can follow the wandering of individual bees by attaching a 15 mg transponder. Unclear whether the bees can get a wifi signal. Bees have 300 degree vision and their eyes process information faster than any human's. All of their nutrition comes from flowers and each individual flower provides only a tiny meal so bees have to travel great distances to obtain all the nutrition that they need. They are competing with many other insects for this nutrition. The book’s bees astound; so too the clever humans who study them."—Robert Eagan, Library Journal, starred review Lars Chittka is an ideal guide to the rich sensory world of bees and to their surprisingly sophisticated powers of cognition. Beautifully illustrated and filled with insights from decades of research, The Mind of a Bee combines scholarship and storytelling in nothing less than a tour de force. Highly recommended for any serious bee enthusiast!”—Thor Hanson, author of Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

The time that insects were seen as little machines, incapable of complex thought, emotions, and learning, is far behind us. We can wish for no better guide than Lars Chittka for an accessible introduction to the wonders of bee intelligence.” —Frans de Waal, author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? A few local lime trees have finished flowering already but some have yet to open up and secrete nectar so we may get a crop of lime honey this year, but the cooler weather makes this unlikely. Mystery blue pollen. The Mind of a Bee is a fascinating book that I hope will be read and understood by as broad an audience as possible, so that the important conclusions within may be shared more widely."—Amanda Williams, Buzz about Bees The knowledge on offer here is as entertaining as it is edifying. Readers won’t look at bees the same way again."— Publishers Weekly

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They can be taught to solve complex problems, and their minds are incredibly powerful thinking machines. Currently, we can't even design a robot that behaves as efficiently as a bee. Most of us are aware of the hive mind-the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? 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. He shows that they are profoundly smart, have distinct personalities, can recognize flowers and human faces, exhibit basic emotions, count, use simple tools, solve problems, and learn by observing others. They may even possess consciousness. Honeycomb is a marvel of engineering, and if you interfere with the preferred method of placing the hexes, bees adapt in clever and beautiful ways. Bees in zero gravity on the space station made their usual hexes but didn’t angle the boxes, as they do on earth, because gravity wouldn’t make the honey leak out. In the counting experiment, the bees were trained to fly past three identical landmarks to a food source. “After they had reliably flown there, we either increased the number of landmarks over the same distance or decreased it.” When landmarks were spaced closer together, the bees tended to land earlier than before and vice versa when the landmarks were placed further apart. “So they were using the number of landmarks to say: ah ha, I’ve flown far enough, this is a good place to land.” I enjoyed listening to this book, the way it was organized in short chapters all of which culminate towards one conclusion: the complexity of bees behavior and life. At some point the author concurred that it was impossible to build a bee robot while other scholars believed that there was a hidden force behind the dynamics of bees and their ability to adapt and evolve …The bees were also capable of imagining how things will look or feel: for example, they could identify a sphere visually which previously they had only felt in the dark – and vice versa. And they could understand abstract concepts like “same” or “different”. The first chapter was phenomenal! So many obscure and fascinating apiary factoids! 10/10! I could re-read annually and still have new thoughts. This is the perfect book for developing metaphors. We have so much to learn from bees. Our work and that of other labs has shown that bees are really highly intelligent individuals. That they can count, recognise images of human faces and learn simple tool use and abstract concepts.” Bees don’t have eardrums, so they don’t hear like humans, but they do hear. A new human that has never gone to a heavy metal concert hears 20-20,000 Hz. Bees feel air movements with their antenna, sensing sound waves ranging from 20-500 Hz, and can feel hive vibrations with their feet. Like Rhianna said, “let the bass from the speakers run through ya sneakers.” (Or was that Bee-yoncé?)

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I’ve referred to William Kirk’s book in an endeavour to find out the source but I’m still not sure so I’m going to have to collect some pollen for microscopy analysis. It will help me to measure the size of a pollen grain and examine its surface to give me a clue. Our blue pollen looks like queen Anne’s thimble but I am not familiar with this plant though it may grow in a nearby garden. I’ve seen blue Phacelia tanacetifolia pollen before and it may be growing locally and producing this lovely pollen. We have no local crops of phacelia but it is one of top plants for potential honey yields, and the pollen contains some of the highest protein levels in plants so it’s very desirable for honey bees. Phacelia in FIfe. Microscopy Results. Save Breaking Strongholds of the Mind- Intensive to your collection. Share Breaking Strongholds of the Mind- Intensive with your friends. It takes them only a dozen to two dozen training sessions to become “proficient face recognisers”, he said. Second thing - scientists that study living creatures without at least a little appreciation and delight in the subject come across as SUCH sociopathic assholes. Looking at YOU, Jean-Henri Fabre. Let’s see YOU see in ultraviolet, you pompous jerk. Bet your vomit tastes horrible on pancakes, you insensitive twat. Can YOU fly? Once one bee is trained, the skill spreads swiftly to the whole colony. Photograph: Razvan Cornel Constantin/Alamy

Save What is Detoxing the Mind? to your collection. Share What is Detoxing the Mind? with your friends. Chittka has managed the extraordinary feat of condensing over three decades of research into a single book and in such a way as to make it accessible to the non-expert."— Beekeepers Quarterly He thinks the level of sophisticated cognition bees exhibit means it’s unlikely they do not feel any emotions at all. “Sentience is about the capacity to have feelings,” he says. “And what we’re seeing now is some evidence that there are these ... emotion-like states in bees.” Bees need to sleep and will rest several hours each day during the eternal daylight of polar summer.