[Daffynition]

[Doogle]

...and be trained to fly through complicated mazes.

...as long as ya don't hit something, keep flying.....(whoa, worked a sweat up over that)

[martin_fierro]

[Ancient Drive]

brain size of a sesame seed.. and more computing power than any of our top CPUs. very efficient too.. there is a great architect behind all this just as there is an architect behind the clock that keeps time for me. The Architect of Life: God

[Daveinyork]

Does anyone have a stinging rebuttal?

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Mu hubby and I are hobbyist beekeepers. At one of the State Bee Keepers meetings (Georgia) we attended, our speaker was from the University of Montana and he spoke about their research in training honeybees. It was amazing.

Here is a quote from their work:

UM scientists have trained bees to detect land mines and pollution, but they haven’t stopped there. Now a new video released in time for Griz-Cat football week shows the flying insects can be trained to prefer the Griz over the Bobcats.

The video was produced by Bee Alert Technology Inc., a University spin-off company formed to market UM’s new bee-training science. The video shows a bee flying through a maze -- entering holes with a Griz logo and avoiding those with a Montana State University logo -- as the UM Fight Song plays.

Larry Tarver, a computer software engineer with Bee Alert, said the bees are trained to seek out a sugar solution. He said Scott Debnam, the company’s senior field research technician and resident "bee whisperer," trained them to seek the Griz and avoid the ’Cats in about two hours.

“In fact, of the 60,000 bees in one hive, only one went for the MSU sticker,” Tarver said. “We let that one go.”

While the training is amusing, he said, it has a practical application of helping researchers understand how bees use both visual cues and smell to find a reward.

Here is a link to their amazing video of the maze they set up. Griz bees video on YouTube

[shove_it]

“But their ability to count seems to go only up to four. They can't count beyond four.”

That's where I lose track too - but it doesn't stop me from havin’ another drink or two - hic.

[bert]

The Seti project is a great effort, but I am convinced that until we learn to communicate with bees we need not go out of our solar system looking for entities to communicate with.

Having watched bees closely for many years I am convinced the communicate at a very high level and that communication is not just physical... the waggle dance or by chemical pheromones.

[A knight without armor]

If they are so smart why don’t they learn to type and tell us what is happening to them.

I have not heard any disappearing bees stories lately.

[Dysart]

Impressive demonstrated mathematical ability by these bees. We already know they are accomplished spellers.

[Goonch]

"Professor Srinivasan says he has also found bees can learn colours and smells and be trained to fly through complicated mazes. "

[Goonch]

The Bees Brothers

[mrsmith]

""But their ability to count seems to go only up to four. They can't count beyond four.""

Hmmmm. May be that's what they want you to think...

[Goonch]

[Goonch]

[MARTIAL MONK]

That’s better than the local High School graduates.