If you’re a bee, your life (and the lives of 50,000 sisters in the hive) depends on navigation. Particularly, on your ability to find a jackpot of flowers and make your way back. The main tool for ...

Can honeybees recognize the beekeepers face? New research by Dr. Dyer from the Monash University in Australia, published in the science journal “PloS ONE”, indicates that bees can learn to recognize ...

Since decoding the “waggle dance” in the 1940s, bees have been at the forefront of research into insect intellect. A new study shows that bees can be trained to understand the dot-dash behavior of ...

The researcher and National Geographic Explorer is helping uncover how bees’ environments shape their smarts. National Geographic Explorer Felicity Muth holds a vial while conducting fieldwork to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of bee behavior helps explain why glossy petals are scarce in nature. Shiny “flowers” stand out like tiny lighthouses ...

The study highlights a big idea: intelligence comes from how brains, bodies and the environment work together. It demonstrates how even tiny insect brains can solve complex visual tasks using very few ...

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