Having already read Honeybee Democracy, which is referenced quite often in this book, and The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild, I had a solid base before starting this one, but I think reading this book first would have been better. Bees memorize important landmarks by direction and relative to the sun, so if you go moving bees at night they’ll be totally lost the next day.

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Second thing - scientists that study living creatures without at least a little appreciation and delight in the subject come across as SUCH sociopathic assholes. You find the odd ‘genius bee’ that does something better than all the other individuals of a colony. So much of the hard science presented seems impossible, so much so that I imagine it will completely change our perspectives of insects. 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.A bit on the wonky side and loaded with information so one needed to pay attention and contemplate what was being presented. Worker bees live only for weeks and have individual specializations such as constructing the comb cells, cleaning the comb cells, tending to the queen, guarding the entrance to the hive, foraging for nectar, or pollen. het boek is leuk verhalend gebracht en blijft door de verschillende hoofdstukken boeiend , het gaat wel wat minder over bewustzijn dan ik had verwacht , . Male butterflies have light receptors on their genitalia to help them copulate, which no doubt explains why butterflies joke about “seeing stars” after a particularly successful session.

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The grains are small at 27 microns and they have lovely patterned surfaces from furrows and pores as you can see. Thanks to Lars Chittka’s captivating account of bees’ thinking and feeling, I now look with fresh eyes at these small animals. Bees are warm blooded and seek out warm nectar when needed to warm up – like having a cup of hot tea when feeling cold (didn’t know that).It takes them only a dozen to two dozen training sessions to become “proficient face recognisers”, he said. A very deep delve into the sensory world of bees, you start to understand what is important to them and how they perceive the world.

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Alleen het deel waarin hij het over het brein van de bij heeft is soms wat taai, maar dat kan ook moeilijk anders.decades of work in which claims were made that bees failed all kinds of surprising simple tasks – discriminating squares from triangles, for example – had been flawed: since bees need to invest time in scanning the shapes, a quicker solution for them was simply to be indiscriminant. I strongly recommend you read [Chittka’s] book and if you will excuse the pun ‘make your own mind up’. 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.