Bumblebees successfully learned a two-step puzzle box task through social observation. This task was too complex for individual bees to learn on their own. Observing trained demonstrator bees ...

Bees have long been celebrated for their intricate hives and precise navigation, but new research suggests their inner lives are even more sophisticated than many scientists assumed. In carefully ...

New research confirms honeybees can count up to four and recognize zero as a quantity less than one, placing them among a rare group of non-human animals with numerical cognition. The finding, ...

A trained demonstrator bee, paired with an observer bee that must learn the full solution, examine the inaccessible target on a closed puzzle box. In a groundbreaking discovery, bumblebees have been ...