The Mind of a Bee

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I later then saw that the book was also reviewed on the blog site “The Beelistener” by Ann Chilcott (July 2022), and I decided I had to get the book myself. Veganism is a term used by people to denote not eating or using animal products for any number of ethical reasons. Chittka makes a convincing argument for individual variability in bees personalities and why and how their choices may be affected by their size, which correlates to how much they were fed as larvae, and any other predispositions that make them better at one task or another, or more or less adventurous and relentless in their pursuit of pollen and nectar, and even their preference for one or the other. So much of the hard science presented seems impossible, so much so that I imagine it will completely change our perspectives of insects. Chittka’s work shows that bees can imagine images of mental shapes and they demonstrate intelligent behaviour with evidence mounting for a simple form of consciousness.

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Rather than just mimic the procedure, the new bees optimized the process, moving the closest ball to the goal. Bees can tell when a flower has been recently visited by the change in electrical charge of the blossom. Chittka, has discovered many fascinating details about the lives of bees, especially their sensory perceptions of the world especially the flowers that they visit to gather pollen and nectar.They seemed more nervous, and showed these bizarre psychological effects of rejecting perfectly good flowers with no predation threat on them. I need to revisit it in the future as I have already forgotten half what I learned, and I do want to remember as I think bees tell a lot about why minds, intelligence, and social behavior have evolved at all. That said, the importance of understanding the subjectively conscious life of bees is not lost on me. Alleen het deel waarin hij het over het brein van de bij heeft is soms wat taai, maar dat kan ook moeilijk anders. Most of The Mind of a Bee by Lars Chittka, professor of sensory and behavioural ecology at Queen Mary University of London, will upset no one: it is an entrancing journey through the senses and life struggles of bees.

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By looking at the world through the lens of a bee, readers will develop tools to better understand the distinct and vivid experiences of tiny invertebrates that are too frequently ignored.Want het is niet omdat ze een kunstbloem aan een touwtje vanonder een glasplaat kan trekken om er de nectar uit te halen en een andere bij die dat ziet het meteen van haar leert - het type intelligentie waarover katten en honden bijvoorbeeld niet beschikken - dat ze bewust zou zijn. Without the addition of saliva, and being tamped down in the cell, pollen looks different in a bee’s corbiculae. Failing to remember the route back to safety or falling prey to the many birds and spiders are the foremost reasons.

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Lars Chittka’s The Mind of a Bee is a mind-blowing presentation of scientific evidence and insight showing beyond . Lars Chittka’s The Mind of a Bee is a mind-blowing presentation of scientific evidence and insight showing beyond any reasonable doubt that bees have awareness, memories, basic emotions, intelligence, and personalities―and that what we are doing to them and their world has not just practical but moral implications.

Around the middle of the book I learned that bees only leave the hive after they are already a few weeks old! A bee must learn and remember so much when she works as a forager: where to find good sources not already depleted, and how to skilfully work the flowers of different species to take full advantage of what is on offer. The book is very enlightening in showing how the sensory organisms of bees provide their minds with different information than our human senses do. Recommended for those with a scientific mind, but not for those interested in broad strokes that help connect a deeper understanding of bee life and/or sentience to their conservation in general.