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Lars Chittka

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Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology, Queen Mary University of London Author of The Mind of a Bee

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Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!

Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!

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Do bumblebees prefer continuous over interrupted strings to get to an artificial flower with nectar? Yes ... but does this mean that they understand the physics of a continuous string...? Find out in our latest paper in eLife:

Do bumblebees prefer continuous over interrupted strings to get to an artificial flower with nectar? Yes ... but does this mean that they understand the physics of a continuous string...? Find out in our latest paper in eLife:

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This is not a time-lapse video - it's a honeybee high on caffeine! The nectar of Coffea flowers (and several other plant species) contains the drug, and not in small amounts!

This is not a time-lapse video - it's a honeybee high on caffeine! The nectar of Coffea flowers (and several other plant species) contains the drug, and not in small amounts!

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