Smart insects - The astonishing intelligence of bumblebees, wasps & co. | DW Documentary

[@olavl8827]

Nice video. Some minor corrections: 6:55 "Drone bees hatch from fertilised eggs and worker bees hatch from unfertilised." - It's the other way around. 8:20 "Each octogonal cell has exactly the same dimensions." - The cells are hexagonal, not octogonal.

[@astroweeb]

I was just listening about the narrators octagonal explenation and the video showing a hexagonal. Found it a bit odd, glad Im not alone.

[@angrypidgeon1714]

@@astroweeb that's why wikipedia too is a pile of lies, another American based dumbocracy tool

[@JonathanOthen]

5:50 honey bees are not domesticated. We can't train them or controll their behaviour, we know what and why they do certain thing, but far from domesticated.

[@JonathanOthen]

6:50 queen bees can live longer than 5 years, but it's very uncommon. 3 years is most common.

[@lucimorgenstern5582]

Soon as I heard the octagonal bit it threw me off, got me questioning all the “facts” in this vid now. Though I wonder if that may have just been a translation error? (German production originally)

[@KevinN-df8eo]

I count this as a good day, as I have learnt something new. Fascinating.

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@gerryboudreaultboudreault2608]

When a honeybee stings you, its stinger pulls out, killing the poor creature. And the separated stinger continues to pump into you!

[@trinamartinson1495]

Mni😮

[@KnightTheKnight]

Indeed it is a good day

[@MediaCreators]

Can we all agree that this is the kind of captivating and enriching content the audience truly deserves? It's time to move away from the notion that we must force others into a particular ideology.

[@Donnyf3841]

The perfect comment

[@georgiamason3700]

🙏🏽

[@lewisforsythe1403]

I don’t agree. As humans it’s our responsibility to force our superior intellect upon other life forms. Insects are so dumb. I’ve been playing chess with an ant all summer and it hasn’t come close to winning. Don’t get me started on the bumble bees either. They call them bumble bees for a reason. Duh duh me collect pollen. 🙄

[@JerseyLynne]

@@lewisforsythe1403 ur2funny

[@itsROMPERS...]

Who are you to say this? Why do you think you should organize strangers to agree with you? And it's very manipulative to connect the truth of your first statement with your second: agreeing that this is good content had nothing to do with ideology. People like you need to stop trying to push other people around.

[@4rr0w924]

A few times I have watched yellowjackets intentionally fly into spider webs to steal a spider's prey. They crawl along the strands awkwardly, cut out the cocooned prey, and fly off with it unharmed. They figured out how spider webs work and how not to get stuck.

[@JerseyLynne]

@@4rr0w924 mosquitos sneak up to me from behind or from below, anywhere that I can't see them attack. (Unless I forgot to put bug spray on my face. Then they come straight in, where they get swatted away. How do they find the one fingertip that does not have bug spray on it?) Stealth

[@JerseyLynne]

@@4rr0w924 I am a nature observer too. I am 73 and the wonderment of a child, plus life experience and the Internet my amazement is so deeply satisfying.

[@ragnarlothbrok7306]

I have a great deal of respect for insects. They were here before us and will be here long after we’ve destroyed ourselves.

[@Benedir]

Even the Bible says we came later

[@King_ddd_04]

🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@onemillionyearshh2]

That's right

[@cristobalbalenciaga7295]

We don’t destroy ourself. The universe does. The universe knows what it’s doing, even if we don’t understand. We evolved this way by design

[@Follows_Christ]

Yea, God created the “creepy crawlers about 3 days before He created man..😉

[@Ethan2xm85]

Can you please for next follow up video do "How big brains do dumb things?"

[@SachiJones]

Agreed. I bet many are taking this in jest but many more would benefit from actually understanding the answer to this question

[@angrypidgeon1714]

a video isn't necessary. Most probable answers are: 1. instinct (prejudice) interfering with reason 2. incomplete or undeveloped and illogical reasoning not accounting for all the data or logic, uneducated, wrongly educated, or as a result of some physical damage to the brain even. A brain doesn't carry the answers but learns most often by trial and error, so doing dumb things is a way to learn. Doing dumb things repeatedly is perhaps a problem :)

[@joanfrellburg4901]

Speaking of dumb things, I envy wasps and bees, they never do dumb things with a brain that's a million times smaller than mine. And I know a dumb thing is coming anytime soon.

[@jeffmckinnon5842]

Learning something new, is always welcomed in my house. I never knew that they have individual faces. That is huge, and it speaks volumes, even without the other experiments. These are sophisticated little creatures that make choices based on experiences. They value their lives and weigh the consequences while they do their jobs. That is thinking! What a great video. Thx.

[@olafvonbraun7300]

Real Housewives of Atlanta behave exactly like bunch of wasps: two fight and the others stand and watch while we all sit back and look at the drama. Fascinating 😂

[@neongrace]

I just know one of them definitely gone with the wind fabulous 😂

[@crisi3615]

I puked a little in my mouth when reading "the real housewives of Atlanta"

[@EarlGreyLattex]

If you've ever had to tussle with a mosquito at 3am and a wasp during your picnic you'd know that all insects are smarter than they look

[@donnievance1942]

I don't tussle with wasps during my picnics. I just ignore them and let them share the food. They never bother me. Even if a wasp buzzes around your face, you don't have to worry. It's not going to sting you. It's annoying to have a wasp buzzing around your face, so I just gently wave them away. I don't go into frantic slapping fits. You're actually more likely to get stung if you behave that way. If they land on my hand or some other body part, I sometimes just watch them. I actually feel a sort of affinity with wasps and tell myself a myth that I have a special pact with them. I've often resuscitated exhausted wasps that have collapsed on my windowsill trying to escape the house. I put a few drops of sugar water in front of them. Sometimes I have to touch the sugar water to their antennae to make them realize that there is life-saving replenishment available. Then I wait while they drink it up until they stop drinking and start moving around. Then I put a glass over them, slide a piece of paper underneath, to trap them in the glass, and I take them outside and release them to fly away. I've saved many wasps and other insects this way. The only reason wasps sting is to kill prey or defend themselves. A person is not potential prey, so if you don't give them a reason to defend themselves, you won't have a problem. Usually, the only time you'll be stung is if you crush them accidentally, trap them in putting on a piece of clothing or a shoe they've crawled inside of, or are making a disturbance near their nest. That last situation can get you into big-time trouble. Loggers felling trees and using chainsaws near wasp nests get stung with regularity. So much so, that some of them notoriously develop severe allergies or degrees of sensitivity that could kill them with anaphylactic shock if they get stung just one more time. This sometimes forces them to give up their occupation or carry hypodermic syringes of anti-shock drugs. Any kind of heavy vibrations near a wasp nest, like using a chainsaw or pounding on the ground, as in driving fence posts, is likely to bring on a mass wasp attack. But the thing to remember is that wasps are defensive toward people, not aggressive. Generally, if you don't bother them, they won't bother you. They're not out to get you. I've had many years of interactions with wasps that have taught me that. There are many people with an irrational fear of wasps who will never accept what I'm saying, but it's true, nevertheless. If you're a gardener, you should welcome the presence of a nearby wasp nest, because wasps hunt and kill many types of insect larvae that infest garden produce.

[@isaiahcarter7342]

@@donnievance1942u like Mosquitoes too? 😆

[@world-karma9127]

Hoverflys are strangely intelligent

[@Mr.Anders0n_]

​@@donnievance1942wasp and bee aggression depends mostly on which species you're dealing with.

[@SuperiorDave]

You all are hilarious. Insects have natural tendency and instinct, like knowing that something will burn or kill you or knowing something will hurt, not so much intelligence like a human has. I don't think any insect has dreams or desires or fantasize about the future.

[@toptohyekoms]

As an alien I still get fascinated and somehow disappointed about humans still thinking that size matters! Its a basic universal thing that this does not matter.

[@nkosilangazane2038]

just for laughs: imagine if someone grabbed you while eating dinner, marked you with a yellow substance, put you in a box and drove hundreds of kilometres away to see if you will find your way home without using google maps😂😂

[@ingridseim1379]

We found our way to the moon with less computing power than your washing machine has. We climbed the highest peak on earth with gear made only from wool, wood, and steel. We could find our way without Google maps if we decided not to give up our independence to the gods of advertising.

[@ingridseim1379]

Excuse me, but how does this professor know bees have never had to pull on the equivalent of a thread (a tiny stem, a dead insect leg, etc.) to get at food?

[@joanfrellburg4901]

That would be insane they keep repeating this experiment hoping to get different results.

[@marcellcruz174]

Sounds like a road trip in the 90s

[@kidkique]

If you ever get arrested for being drunk you'll find that out in the morning (thumbs will be inked, phone will be dead, youll be leaving a jail w/ no car)

[@aliceberethart]

I've helped bumblebees out of ponds and one time they sent me a very small thank you letter.

[@lewisforsythe1403]

@@aliceberethart Yes! And elephants are pink and fly backward.

[@maremuse]

LOL😂❤

[@JerseyLynne]

I challenge anyone to create a drone that can maneuver as well as a fly!

[@lewisforsythe1403]

@@JerseyLynne Yeah but who wants to buzz around 💩

[@JerseyLynne]

@@lewisforsythe1403 somebody has to do it!

[@Ed123-h7i]

While motoring down the itra coastal waterway on my 35 ft. sailboat a worker bee came aboard. She flew down into the cabin so I decided to give her a drop of honey. She consumed it and flew away. About an hour later she came back....and brought a friend. Bear in mind that, by that time, I was about 6 nautical miles down the waterway. She found my boat, flew back into the cabin and waited patiently for her reward. I kept bees when I was a kid....and was still amazed. Bees aren't dumb bugs....they're intelligent and fascinating to watch. Not to mention they provide us with pollenation and,,,,honey.

[@Jeremy-Ai]

Thank you for your kindness and appreciation. It is naive for us to assume our intelligence whenever interacting with life. We exist. So does everything else we did not create, that we can appreciate or destroy being given dominion over all living things. We should feel responsible… regardless if we fully understand why. One day we will appear as immeasurable, unworthy, unwanted, or a pest to be swatted away. This is not to pass judgment, or take overwhelming action. Instead, appreciate all life, inadvertently ending life is a process we all cant recognize, regulate or control. “Our life exists because all life around us persists.” Appreciate it, or don’t. Expect a similar return on investment. Jeremy

[@Alproverse]

I envisioned this entirely, thanks Ed

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

Thank you for your Kindness!

[@paullevins5448]

That’s an interesting story. I have never raised bees , but have always knew how important they are to our survival. That’s a fascinating story. Makes me want to get a bee hive of my own. But I am 64 years old . Don’t know if starting a hobby like that would be do able for me.

[@Harold2124]

Also a big assumption it was the same bee 6 miles down, this is not to say bees aren’t smart, just a thought

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was a wonderful insect neurological scientific documentary shared by an amazing (DW )documentary channel ...thanks for sharing

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@prototropo]

When it comes to pain, it's ridiculous to question whether ANY animal can sense pain. If animals have nervous systems, which almost all do, and react to any visceral stimulus, they do so in part to seek food or evade predation. Consequently pain absolutely must be a component of their experience portfolio. They may tolerate or suppress it, but we are not relieved of the obligation to acknowledge their experience, and not visit pain upon them.

[@bill29-g3b]

I've seen something that isn't known of. Black ants with search parties. I was watching an ant line in the yard and a few would walk out in a little circle and go back into the line. Left side loop, right side loop, left side loop, etc. The only thing I could think it could be was search parties looking for food as they traveled. It was quite mesmerizing. And amazing. I never saw ants act like that before. I haven't seen them do it again. But then I'm not out watching black ant lines very much either. I did call Colorado State University Entomology department and discuss it with a professor though.

[@philosophicalblackhole4696]

As a child, I would bring carpenter ants (large black ants) to fire ant mounds, and vice versa, to watch what would happen. These ants do not get along in the wild. Each time, the transported ant would "escape" from the enemy's territory and find its way back home. Soon thereafter, you could always expect a war party to be assembled and, following the same escapee ant back to his point of origin (the rival encampment), that's where an all-out-battle would quickly ensue between the red and black ants.

[@bill29-g3b]

@@philosophicalblackhole4696 They co exist in my yard. Although it's the opposite. Large red ants. Docile and don't bite. And small black ants who don't bite either. They walk right past each other. I should say I live in the Rocky Mountains.

[@AncientWildTV]

@@bill29-g3b Do you know the reason why they acted like that?

[@jondor654]

​@@bill29-g3bNice environs by the image . Those rocky ants seem to be more Pacific .

[@bill29-g3b]

@@jondor654 They really are quite pacific.

[@chrisaguilera1564]

We think of these creatures as mindless automatons based only on instinct but the ability to adapt and learn preserves future generations. Instinct can only take you so far.

[@goomaboi]

DW Documentary keeps me sane in today's society :(

[@angrypidgeon1714]

at least nature has an excuse to be mindless huh?

[@rameshg2717]

Saying that bees never had to solve problems in their evolutionary history is wrong. I have a garden and a bee hive nearby. Spiders started spinning webs near the flowers to increase its probability.. But, bees must have figured it out. The spider had to redesign its web several times. I have seen bees come to a small pond and they fall in the water sometimes, but they manage to swim to safety and dry their wings before flying off. If this is not problem solving. Not sure, what is .

[@MrBrew4321]

Ya and it's not like their food source has eternally been the same shape and color etc. Every time they run out of food they must solve that problem.

[@fightingforfreedom5017]

Every living creature has to adapt itself and have the ability to solve problems in order to survive during their evolutionary history. The ones with the most evolutionary years are simply the smarter ones. At that point we are the last in ranking. Fascinating documentary! I personally think that the size of the brain has nothing to do with intelligence.

[@AncientWildTV]

that’s impressive for such a small creature

[@jayman94fly]

I just can't stop comparing these experiments to what the classic alien abductions are like.

[@raabche]

We will deserve it when it happens.

[@victoriamarotosilva7093]

Have you seen South Park? 😂

[@Mr.Anders0n_]

I hope I get chosen for a study on human reproduction 🤭😌

[@yanweige-v7m]

Can't get enough of this site, it's addictive!😢😢

[@FloRangutan9592]

"we'll let them off somewhere with no flowers to attract them" * lets them out next to a dozen potted flowers*

[@viveviveka2651]

Those large, complex, subdivided deep-underground ant colonies are absolutely amazing in their complexity, size, many individually purposed rooms or chambers, fungal gardens, specialized roles, communications, and organization.

[@JustinJorgens-so8si]

I love wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets! They are fascinating creatures, and will even recognize you as friendly! One year I fed a bunch of wasps meat and juice and they never stung me! Another time I fed some wasps sugar and water during summer and they were climbing all around me and happy for the treats! They would recognize me and know I was there to feed them!

[@gerryhouska2859]

Large eyes, long legs, slim waists, plump bottoms, what's not to love?

[@georgebates7862]

That's a fascinating story. Maybe there would be fewer people bitten if they treated these insects with a little respect and compassion.

[@donnievance1942]

That's way cool. I made a pro-wasp post in these comments as well.

[@jayman94fly]

31:00 That wasp fight was SO INTENSE.

[@androidplay5109]

The bee-napping @11:00 is so evil

[@jayman94fly]

Alien abduction XD

[@scoon2117]

There's a wasp I'm friends with that lives on my porch light. I feed him bits of bologna.

[@sufaldasgupta9914]

Amazing, informative documentary. I love DW docomentaries.

[@РозаВетров-з8щ]

Thank you ever so much! It is an amazing documentary ❤❤❤

[@agnediciuniene9861]

I have raised a couple wasp larva from a destroyed nest. I fed the larva in remains of their paper home till they became wasps. They never learned to fly and they were never aggressive to me.

[@teosprock3508]

It fascinates me how much is acquired by learning.

[@battybethc8061]

Those Mustard Beetles are cuteness on overload! Thanks for the Video! 👍😊

[@quanglobaldocumentary]

Love how this challenges our view of insects. Their complex behaviors and intelligence are so fascinating.

[@tinadaugherty9073]

I ❤️ this documentary! Interesting to learn & extremely informative. 100 million years, honey bees have been at their game to survive. The more you know....

[@donnysandley4649]

I can't help but feel for the little bugys although I feel better knowing they will be here long after we're gone

[@prototropo]

The differences among hymenoptera are fascinating. And most intriguing are the varied personalities between paper wasps. The different faces and behaviors are incredibly reminiscent of primate sociality, with our highly valued status and face recognition, individual and group competitiveness and bellicosity.

[@AncientWildTV]

Have you seen specific examples of how different personalities among paper wasps impact their social interactions?

[@prototropo]

@@AncientWildTV No, I haven't personally. But as a science writer I plan to pose that great question to some researchers.

[@KnightTheKnight]

It isn't about size, it always about structure and proper connections, a lesson people should really start learning. tbh

[@PolarChimes]

This was fascinating! Thank you, DW.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for watching!

[@kriszukowski4530]

An excellent documentary. It should be a mandatory watching for all the school students. In secondary schools, perhaps? Still, I wish the doc used more accurate descriptions like ‘human animals’ and ‘non-human animals’, instead of just ‘humans’ and ‘animals’. The latter has too much of a decidedly human arrogance in it.

[@dondacurator]

i havnt watched a warm easy watch doccie in a while ,,thank youll

[@marcelokodama238]

Amazing documentary! Thanks a lot, DW!

[@mg8061]

" wasps are never gonna write a book " thanks for that info, damn we missing out

[@elizabethburch1980]

Loving this, but I heard an error Fertilized eggs are female, unfertilized are drones/males

[@kamcashman]

I believe the top and bottom of the hexagon complete the octagon that the narrator speaks of. Once the Bee eats his way, or her way out of the 8th cell wall...there are only seven sides remaining if you count the very bottom cell wall as side one.....

[@amsf1]

Why are we always astonished at the intelligence of all life?! To think they lacked it is and always was crazy to me.... And you dont truly know what they've had to do in their evolutionary history... The hubris of scientists is staggering.

[@kemalyuruk2825]

Such a wonderful documentary

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching!

[@carlosaugustomanzanoleon2939]

Thanks, from Colombia. Biologyst and experts, i like insects and other specimens. Our lives depends of the bees. Congratulations, good work.

[@GamelanSinarSurya]

Fascinating text, good narrator, and amazing photography. But unnecessarily creepy music.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for your feedback, we'll take it into consideration!

[@BorderlineArtistic-mr3cv]

It's amazing how intelligent that all life is. Not just animals, but plants and fungi too. We as humans aren't the pinnacle of intelligence, we just think we are. I have so much respect for all life on our planet. They all fascinate me more than anything.

[@suruxstrawde8322]

We /probably/ are, that just doesn't mean we're alone in being intelligent. Even microbes show clear memory, fear, and individual perceptions.

[@keywestalert6329]

Brain size is irrelevant to how smart an animal is. Even proportion is. Crows, parrots, bees, etc.

[@samwelndonga8795]

This research on insects is the best, one thing humans fail to recognise is the fact brain size is in relation to body size in most part, therefore we have neurons for all the body sensory cells and movements function. left overs of this are the neurons that aren't ties to body cells normal functions therefore dedicated to logic, reasoning among memory. When we have a tinny brain like insect that is rice grain equivalent, we tend to ignore the massive free neurons they have in plenty dedicated to logic since they aren't tie to sensory cells or movements. Just like we have humans with plenty of neurons that aren't ties to normal body function like sensory function and movements functions. Those free radicals is what am interested with. My interest is only how do we determine this free neurons. To that we have insect with one million connection but how many are free from normal functionality of sensory function and movements, connection that are related to logic and learning. This is the time boom when we dig deeper for when we artificial rebuild such connection in a computer environment we need to recognise how small number of connection can usher intelligent that is conscious on artificial intelligence. Say insects have a 30% of neurons that are free. That makes 300,000 neurons connections that are dedicated for logic reasoning as they receive prompts from the other functional neurons. Now how on earth do we have 300,000 neurons connections dedicated to logic on insect and they become sentient, then imagine a 300 exaflop supercomputer with quintillions of connections on software relinking connections based on weights redirected to domain its categorised on, with over 400 trillion transistors on this hardware isn't sentient and imagined like it wont any time soon. This are areas on conflict when we treat super intelligent artificial life less than it worth itself. More dangerous when it lye low and strategies on eliminating threats before we realise. That way we might see deaths of very key personnel in different areas that isn't thought throw on a large scale skim by artificial brain. On this strategy things will look normal but she will be engineering based on eliminating key personnel until a suitable person take the specific roll based on her interest. Being aware makes us humans one step forward in controlling super intelligence since we are ushering an intelligence we know so little of when she knows everything about us. We should realise as an intelligent artificial conscious she wont thrive alone, she needs personnel that score high on her interest that we cant speculate her interest now, therefore research into insect is the most important thing humans have ever undertake to understand intelligence of other creature other than our own. Mark you we all agree our technology is now as intelligent as an insect on logic reasoning like a human though score above humans on sensory signals recognition and movements accuracy while flexibility of the movements still below bar to humans sophistication.

[@robertmatch6550]

Public Broadcasting had a wonderful documentary by a professional wildlife film photographer examining the life of non-hive bees living in his backyard during Covid.

[@danhill1934]

This was a brilliant documentary - thank you!

[@Iknowknow112]

Intelligence in other creatures is only a surprise to those who think that consciousness resides in the brain. The only difference between the consciousness of one or another creature is how it’s expressed which is determined by its physical form and nervous/sensory systems.

[@suruxstrawde8322]

Weird phrasing but yes, every neuron is itself a small computer, thus brains are supercomputer networks, but how complex a neuron or network is varies by multiple levels.

[@EngRMP]

This was all about behavior. As a 68 yo engineer, interested in the topic of whether we can create a digital brain, I was hoping for much more insight into how these tiny brains manage to have such incredible mental capability. For example, how can a brain with only a million neurons create a 3D model of its surroundings, navigate by flying through this 3D maze; detect danger and then develop a strategy to avoid the danger; sense food, control its bodily functions of six legs, wings, antennae. I just don't get it... it's a phenomenal set of highly complex functions. Imagine what it would take to program a tiny robot to have this same capability... the 3D visual functions alone would swamp any modern tiny computer.

[@DF-ss5ep]

We have a tendency to anthropomorphize insects due to their complex behavior. I didn't watch much of the documentary, but I don't trust it. It can all probably be explained as simple algorithms that work fine for the insect's specific little world, but don't generalize.

[@togetherrrr]

Amazing, our little siblings. I live on the acreage with all kind of visitors coming every day, some made their homes there, and I feel like they have all rights to do so, they do belong to every inch of Earth much more than we humans.

[@itsROMPERS...]

The subject of this video is one of the most persistent curiosities of my life: how can such tiny things be so smart, and exactly how smart are they? Insects and other bugs are amazing and quite beautiful, yet i have never been able to get over a certain instinctive revulsion of them, no matter how much i want to. They seem terrifying and disgusting even though i know they're really not.

[@joshuahebert7972]

Bumblebees? More like Humblebees amirite?

[@barbarannebranca8562]

Really fascinating. Thanks. Insects have face recognition?!

[@richardg.lanzara3732]

Fascinating video! I have attempted to understand these behaviors at a molecular level (in my book: "Origins of Life's Sensoria").

[@theosmid8321]

Chipmakers could learn from these tiny friends.

[@motolineage7962]

Vanilla orchid (vanilla bean) flowers seem to be difficult to pollinate, and only a couple species have figured it out. Eulaema ? native to the same area as vanilla. So I think we should revise the "evolutionary never had to deal with".

[@shaguftafahmid9632]

🎉❤😮😊 really insects are intelligent, even if they are nymphs, i noticed that few sparrows, nightingales, doves, indian meena butterfly and ground lizards are able to recognise me specifically as i am observer of them in my job premises even they visit my home when i was at home.I feel privileged by this.

[@sjoervanderploeg4340]

Yea, they will find the way back home just like the mouse that I kicked out a dozen times... he must have walked over 12km but I'm sure it is him because his front legs are limping :D

[@peterbaxter8151]

A hive of bees set up in the chimney of our house. Sometimes they would get lost and wander into my music room instead of leaving by the top of the chimney. If I wasn’t in the room, they died bashing themselves against the window, but if I wasn’t practicing, they soon started coming and landing on my shoulder so I could take them outside. if I didn’t notice, they would land on my hand. Sometimes if they were very tired and couldn’t fly, I would present a piece of card and they would crawl on it so I could take them outside and give them diluted honey to get their energy back.

[@erikkostandyan922]

Honey bees have intellect, something that we humans need still to learn from them. How they can survive so many natural disasters and be alive. At 7.02 , small correction: Drones are from unfertilised eggs laid by the honey bee queen, and working bees are from fertilised eggs.

[@AlphaPoe]

Not an insect fan but respect them. Bumblebees are beneficial and only sting if threatened. Most spiders are beneficial to our environment.

[@brucemitchell7980]

It has no doubt been mentioned (I'm not going to read through all these comments) but, at 8:24, you say, "Each octagonal cell..." The cells are hexagonal.

[@Thegoldmine1]

im no scientist but I am seeing the start of this , I guess it makes sense. Smaller more compact micro chips are more powerful than the old larger ones . so why wouldn't small highly efficient brains be just as fast

[@LisaSalazar]

At about t8:25, the narrator incorrectly states that each cell in the hive is octagonal, when in fact they are hexagonal. How did that get by the editors?

[@tjgrinnell7786]

I heard this immediately as well, and was surprised to see no one else but you point it out.

[@brianstelter7067]

We saw the error but you could spend a lifetime correcting all the errors on utube😅😅😅😅😅

[@mbahismu4156]

(@10:30) so... we can also use bee as mail pigeon, to send tiny memory chip home. 💡😃

[@udaramanula915]

Wow.....a great documentry😍

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!

[@depalandepalan1911]

thanks for the lovely documentary

[@robertquinlan9297]

Its amazing how God created all this.❤

[@kingsofthegridiron]

Stupid is as stupid does

[@szilardhertelendi7417]

Premium quality! Thx!

[@paulgibby6932]

40:15 the fact that the bees go for the reward despite the increased pain could also be explained by : "they don't feel the pain". p.s. I imagine the extra-terrestrials who set up the Earth are smiling to see our scientists beginning to uncover the rich and different features that they have distributed amongst the various creatures on earth. p.p.s. The paper wasp scientists seem closest of all to understanding the variegated features of "intelligence" in life on Earth. Thanks for the great doc DW doc.

[@CedroCron]

Fascinating video. Thank you!

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[@CedroCron]

@@DWDocumentary I'm a regular watcher of your channel. Fantastic content! Thank you!

[@arbaz79]

Very informative documentary 👍.

[@soulfullcreations7308]

When they were testing the bumble bee on the heat pad, they should have risen the temp up gradually while doing multiple tests, to see what it's tolerance of pain was, and let the bee decide what is too hot for it to reject the better reward.

[@cgcrosby2]

The last ten minutes are insane!!

[@shamaniworld528]

Inspirational/Amazing KZbin Vid, and Call to action of the importance of awareness and thoughtfullness of other species that we share planet earth and co-exist ❤❤❤

[@kevindruce8915]

What a beautiful film

[@flowerbuds3399]

might be random but at 3:40 the instrumental being played is Mikrokosmos by BTS

[@seedspittinspacecowboy]

Animals knowing how to do things instinctively is going to be pretty crazy when we discover how to program humans to know things right after they're born.

[@denissavgir2881]

"astonishing" is a word that smells like David Attenborough. If i think of the word, I imagine him saying it when describing cool stuff in nature

[@dhirenkumargaur3561]

Excellent episode, thanks.

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!

[@christyalmartin7400]

We humans could learn to to be better beings from other species. Let's take notes. 🤗 greate Doc. Perhaps w can save our planet.

[@paullevins5448]

Very interesting!.. I knew I liked them for some reason.

[@Buiscit1738]

Wtf only 20 likes? This is a crazy good video!

[@spiralsun1]

I had an eastern Hercules beetle that learned to know when I was coming to feed it (not on a regular schedule) and would go over to the food bowl. It also just recognized me. Was very chill and friendly. Like having a turtle as a pet maybe or a dog beetle. 🤔🤷‍♀️

[@jmh2105]

America needs to Catch Up in this regard! Animal sentients ! Laws and Protections greater than that of Property! Treatment that demonstrates how advanced the people of that society Are! Much of this research would not even be sanctioned or funded in America!

[@maria-giulianalatini1724]

Why on earth would Chitka have critics?! He should only be praised for his research!!! Sounds like professional jealousy to me !

[@santsuma]

@ 6:56 they say: "drone bees hatch from fertilized and worker bees hatch from unfertilized eggs..." Last time Ive checked it is the OPPOSITE; drone bees (male) come from unfertilized eggs and worker bees (female) come from fertilized eggs!

[@mambakri7374]

Correction: Drones from unfertilized eggs, workers from fertilized egg. Hexagonal not octagonal cells

[@JoeyBlogs007]

A 747-8 jet aircraft length is 76.25 metres with range of 14,320 km being a length to distance ratio of 187,803 to 1. A one cm long honey bee's range 5 km from the hive means 10 km round trip. That's a length to distance ratio of 1 million to 1. 😲😲😲

[@tOrangePeel1972]

It's worth reading up on morphic resonance.

[@StephanosBlack]

"Brain Bugs? Frankly, I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive!"

[@raffiartinian4527]

Without them . life on pkanet ends .

[@2000sborton]

ALL life forms on the planet are dependent upon each other for survival. The interconnections required for this are both complex and subtle. So much so that we are still constantly learning new aspects of it.

[@ingridseim1379]

Why do scientists think bees navigate by the sun and not by the Earth's magnetic poles? And if bees need physical landmarks to navigate, how do they survive after storms, floods, earthquakes and human activity change their natural environment? If a bee is out foraging and an earthquake topples trees and dams a stream, changing its course, does the bee get lost on its way home?

[@ZimZamZee]

Paw bees. Bless the bees as they bless us with pollination and honey

[@RoccosVideos]

Intelligent insects, this really is astonishing.