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- good at associative learning : learning that two different events occur or happen together
- short term visual memory of 5 seconds
- able to recognize colors (variously well)
- Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) interact in large colonies (20,000 to 80,000 members)
- Show eusocial behaviour:
characterised by bringing up all offpsring in hive and not just own offspring
- strictly male
- only job is to mate with queen at 2-8 weeks
- afterwards they die
- Vital to their evolution and survival
some species have the ability to regulate temperature of their nest
-e.g through evaporation of water
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- scout bees leave early to find a suitable new hive
during heavy nectar flow (spring/summer)
- queen and many workers leaves and settles into new hive
- in the old hive: a new queen hatches, mates, and takes over the colony
- guard their hive as defense
- can only sting once
- stingers are attached to intestines
- releases pheromones that alert other bees to attack