“Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt through individual trial and error.” 🐋🌱 #evobio 🧪

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone - Nature

Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt...

@lillianas.bsky.social

I wonder when bees started using interpretive dance to make up for the inability to use pheromone trails.

Video here youtu.be/fvgnjbq1OhY

Bumblebees show each other how to solve complex puzzles

Puzzles that bumblebees cannot solve on their own can be cracked with help from another bee, adding to research on the transmission of culture among insects....

Sure, until the one who already knows how starts charging tuition.