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Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers

The Life Scientific

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The Honey Bees Are Changing From Waggle Dance to Tremble Dance

Honey bees do waggled ances, and more foragers pile in. They are doing this to make sure that they're not going to overload the system. There's a very small period of time during the year where they actually pile in most of the nectar - so it's really crucial they get it right. What do these experiments tell us about the intelligence of bees individually? Hey, ont body tel s omthig about the Intelligence of an individual bee. But what they show, i think, is the power of of natural selection and evolution to produce these collective systems that can have really sophisticated, powerful waysof doing things.

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