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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 also have their own dance language which they use to represent distance, direction, and duration, to tell hive members where to go to find flower patches. Besides humans, bees are the only known animal to use symbolism to indicate actual places. Bees also have culture that can be passed down from one generation to the next. However, in colder climates, it seems that cultural evolution stops in the winter because of hibernation. Also, bees are not a "hive mind" like you see in science fiction (no animal is, as far as we can tell), each bee is very much an individual and can have its own ideas about itself and the world. Oh and bees are also self aware. 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? 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. This book is perhaps a must-read for those interested in autonomous AI. The central question is: "how do we probe the mind of a bee to figure out what's going on?" Does knowing the code of an AI exempt us from this kind of study?

The Mind of a Bee | Princeton University Press The Mind of a Bee | Princeton University Press

Third - friendly reminder that governments that ban books, limit their scientists, and discriminate for religion, gender, race, or ideology are not good governments. I was talking about Nazis, who did you think I was discussing? Dit opzienbarende experiment is maar een van de vele die Chittka beschrijft in Het bewustzijn van de bij, zijn boek op basis van dertig jaar onderzoek. Dat bijen en hommels een zonnekompas hebben en aardmagnetisme voelen wisten we al. Het zijn zaken die hen helpen om van meer dan twee kilometer ver feilloos hun weg terug naar huis te vinden. Maar dat ze weten welke bloem net bezocht is door een andere bij, waardoor ze geen nectar meer bevat, was toch een verrassing. Blijkbaar zijn bloemen elektrisch negatief geladen en bijen positief. Wanneer een bij die bloem bezoekt wordt ze iets positiever, wat de volgende bij meteen voelt. There is a quote from Darwin’s research where he noted that bees sometimes copy the behaviour of “Humble bees” (didn’t know that). I smiled when I read how Darwin spelled bumble bees, since the Swedish word is “Humlor”, much closer to the word Darwin used. And “hum” is probably chosen because of how they sound when they fly. Save Dyslexia: It's All in The MIND to your collection. Share Dyslexia: It's All in The MIND with your friends. Chittka dispels the myth that worker honey bees are cold blooded and explains why they like drinking warm nectar and how they can learn to associate the colour of flowers with nectar temperature and can predict nectar temperatures based on past experiences.Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioural ecology at Queen Mary University, London. Related Categories Save Quieting the Mind | Online event to your collection. Share Quieting the Mind | Online event with your friends. Lars Chittka presents work ranging over many decades exploring how bees sense the world, learn, solve problems, and communicate. The purpose of the book is to suggest that bees (and likely most insects and animals of all kinds) have at least a basic form of consciousness, and are capable of many of the same feats of general intelligence we associate to human beings. This is accomplished by sharing study after study, discussing not just results and methodology, but also what the findings contribute to the big picture, and a bit of the history and context around the people doing the research.

The Mind of a Bee Reviewed. - The Beelistener The Mind of a Bee Reviewed. - The Beelistener

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. Little leafcutter bee has finished building a nest in the tubular trolley handle and is foraging on everlasting peas in the glorious hot sunshine we enjoyed for a few days. Apiary News. Bees kept in an unlit lab with no windows surprised researchers by scent-marking trails upon which they walked in the dark. “Life, uh, finds a way” - Ian Malcom Save Benefits of Detoxing the Mind to your collection. Share Benefits of Detoxing the Mind with your friends.

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.

The mind of a Bee | Lars Chittka | Reason with Science The mind of a Bee | Lars Chittka | Reason with Science

Researchers can follow the wandering of individual bees by attaching a 15 mg transponder. Unclear whether the bees can get a wifi signal. The anatomy and physiology of a worker bee’s brain and sensory systems are described in good detail. Likewise, for a bee’s learning process including information about acquisition and recall. The topic of pain is covered and we learn that, like us, insects have receptors that register tissue damage and pain but that alarm pheromones flood their nervous systems with built in painkillers making them perhaps unaware of injuries. A radical new book argues that a bee may have a mind of its own, awareness of the world, basic emotions and intelligence. It is a bold and brave claim – but is it true?This book is based on years of scientific research. It is a fascinating read that poses questions we all ought to be asking ourselves."—Claire Waring, Country Smallholder

The Mind of a Bee - Linnean Society of London The Mind of a Bee - Linnean Society of London

Chittka has been studying bees for 30 years and is considered one of the world’s leading experts on bee sensory systems and cognition.First off - there were very few photos of insects in this book. Insects are cool, but seeing them up close (esp. with extreme magnification of compound eyes) gives me the heebies.



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