Description: Learn why pollinators are in trouble and how you can help. Healthy, happy bees need good homes with plenty of food and no poisons. Take simple steps today!
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So it turns out that bees appear to be thinking, feeling creatures . Individual bees have personalities (some are far more industrious foragers than others, for example, even when closely related).
Bees can count. Bees can learn from one another. Bees can use simple tools. Bees sleep (and likely dream... of flowers?) We can design studies to show that bees feel optimism or pessimism , depending on what's happened to them lately. Bees make choices, plan for the future , form mental maps so as to find their way across changing landscapes from home to flowers and back, and even exhibit playfulness .