How to Train a Bumblebee: Scientists Study Insect Intelligence | National Geographic

[@rosegold973]

Omg the bee looked so cute pulling the string 😂

[@DudeTC811]

Save the bees! Our environment needs their pollination skills.

[@carlf.2776]

This was fantastic, I would not have guessed that a hexapod would have the neural complexity to make these associations and apply them with basic problem-solving. I would love to understand how this basic learning works and how long they retain that information. I wonder if it is a result of an adaptation that would allow bumblebees to remember how to navigate within more-complex flower structures, to harvest with greater efficiency.

[@JamesAC17GA]

*g r e a t e r e f f i c i e n c y .* It is!

[@Baby-blue999]

Insects are the fundamental base level of the animal kingdom, they don't experience as many emotions or logistical thought patterns as us mammals do, however they can be trained but only in very simple basic ways. Think of it as trying to teach a distant unevolved relative basic life lessons using safe simple methods that align with their natural instincts.

[@chavamara]

If they can teach bumblebees to pull strings, could it be possible to teach European Honey Bees how to effectively fight off attacks from Japanese Giant Hornets?

[@paulgeorge9228]

Honey beess know how to, they just need numbers

[@NewMessage]

The tampon industry will never be the same. "New from Tampax.. Box Bees!"

[@asimi925]

Of course it's an amazing Demonstration but now bumblebee learned something she will never use in real life. What does this remind me of?

[@michaelbuckers]

Playing videogames perhaps?

[@thiagolucas4651]

@@michaelbuckers bruh 💀

[@kokoslegend4850]

Train the trainer bee with a trainer bee and that train you wit a trainer bee.🤣😂😅 How do i train the trainer bee?😂

[@jomysg1536]

Has anyone noticed that most people confuse bumble bees and carpenter bees? I did too until I looked it up

[@shanenolan85]

The Antichrist Same💯 I JUST learned the difference yesterday night! I admire bumblebees but after seeing the damage carpenter bees make...not a fan lol. Plus the thumbnail is a carpenter as you know and pointed out 🐝

[@SciencewithMrHarris]

Haha was just about to point this out as well!

[@caioatila669]

Amazing, i love nature!

[@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword]

Omg the tree bumblebee at 1:18 is so cute. I miss bees. I can't wait for spring

[@user-ko4qc6zj9y]

Operant conditioning is what it's called. The behaviour is positively rewarding thus increases the chance of repeating the behaviour: positive reinforcement. Reminds me of Skinners rat experiment

[@princenadroj9766]

It was thought that all insects were more like mindless robots that are incapable of doing so because of their tiny size and even tinier brains but this proves otherwise, I also learned that wasps can recognize different facial features and are able to distinguish between the two which makes me even more terrified of them.

[@fjfeuankcnncne7663]

we need more vodeos like this from nat geo

[@mateogonzalez5678]

That is fracking awesome!

[@livleone]

why is this making me cry on a friday

[@TheNekokuro2]

Aww.. hello misses bee! 🐝

[@Ingrid-ss1rc]

Bees are so incredibly important for us that most people dont know as to what point. All of our food depends on the pollination from these guys. We should save them.

[@jeffbrant5489]

HELLO I HAVE A PICTURE FOR YOU

[@vengeance160]

Bees are pretty distinct from bumblebees. And bumblebees are not going to extinct.

[@aparanoidpersonnothingelse6210]

I'm here because my garden is full of bees and they love us so I wanna tame them

[@red.armstrong]

Sooooo cuuuute🐝😍

[@meandmymouth]

Could we now set up an entirely artificial honey factory based on slave bee colonies trained to convert sugar to the golden stuff ?

[@noaccount4]

Yeah that's called beekeeping, humanity has done it for thousands of years

[@2k2mike]

WOW!!!!!!!!!

[@jorgecortes3382]

if the bees need a buddy trainer bee to learn. How did the trainer bee learn?

[@Cintiams95]

this is amazing

[@LauraMaxwellExSpiritist]

wow, awesome

[@tyrannical3579]

very lovely

[@timalfredsson2033]

So cute 😀😘

[@infernotara870]

Imagine if their brains were the size of ours, holy cow would they be smart

[@benheroph]

Is that B-127?

[@That_NJ_guy]

Hey Mr. Bumble Bee.

[@damienjeremyweir4543]

Im amazed. 🙄

[@Jessiemats]

Isn't the bird background noise for the beginning taken from another KZbin video?! IVE HEARD IT BEFORE!!

[@Jessiemats]

It's called relaxing nature sounds

[@yassineaxo1075]

Hahaha your reacting to your own comment

[@Jessiemats]

Darwin Watterson that was me after I found out what it was

[@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword]

The thumbnail is a carpenter bee. They're not even in the same family as bumblebees. Edit: Actually they are the same family. They're still a different genus though, so they're still not the same animals.

[@ethangilbert5371]

They're closely related.

[@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword]

@@ethangilbert5371 Not that close. Their last common ancestor is the common ancestor of all bees that lived 120 million years ago. Bees are anthophila, a sub-clade within the order hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants.) There are 9 families of bees within that clade. The genus bombus (bumblebees) is in the family apidae, whereas the... It was at this moment that I needed to google which family carpenter bees are in, only to discover that they're actually apidae too. Now I feel like an idiot. However, they're still not the same. They're still different genera. It doesn't matter how closely related they are. The thumbnail still doesn't match the title.

[@ethangilbert5371]

@@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword I thought that the carpenter bee and the bumblebee were within the same family. Xylocopinae and Apinae are within the Apidae family (you probably know more about genealogy than I do when it comes to bees lol). I mean genetically they do contrast but they still have a lot of the same behaviors. Yes carpenter bees are more solitary than bumblebees but I want to wager they are pretty intelligent, if not just as smart as bumblebees. I think my defense for the thumbnail is just that bees as a whole are pretty smart (and the thumbnail caught my eye too because I more commonly see carpenter bees than I do bumblebees, so NatGeo is probably capitalizing off of the U.S. percentile because of how common they are).

[@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword]

@@ethangilbert5371 Did you read the rest of my comment? I corrected myself

[@ethangilbert5371]

@@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword Oh, lol u good

[@piepiesamurai8217]

We have a bumble bee with its front leg off and I don't want to let it suffer it's cold and upside down

[@mikeonfreeserve2926]

I realise yours is an old post but if anyone finds a cold or wet bumblebee, pick it up and put it on some tissue to absorb the water and feed it with some sugar diluted in water and put it somewhere warm so it can raise its internal temperature to about 30 degrees and it will buzz its wings to help warm up and when it is warm and dried out and fed it will fly off and younare a bee paramedic 😉

[@rickiex]

so... the bubbles are the worlds equlavent of the Mexicans to Americans? lmao

[@strategymythbuster910]

How can I make this bumblebee as my pet

[@leroyharvin4215]

O he's so kute

[@plankton67js]

KAAWAAIII

[@Alicapy]

insect fren

[@lookatme6929]

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