{"id":159770,"date":"2023-03-07T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T01:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/bumblebees-learn-new-trends-in-their-behavior"},"modified":"2023-03-07T19:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T01:22:43","slug":"bumblebees-learn-new-trends-in-their-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/bumblebees-learn-new-trends-in-their-behavior","title":{"rendered":"Bumblebees learn new \u2018trends\u2019 in their behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/icgka3OTlJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new study has shown that bumblebees pick up new \u201ctrends\u201d in their behavior by watching and learning from other bees, and that one form of a behavior can spread rapidly through a colony even when a different version gets discovered.<\/p>\n<p>The research, led by Queen Mary University of London and published in <i>PLOS Biology<\/i>, provides strong evidence that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/social+learning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">social learning<\/a> drives the spread of bumblebee behavior\u2014in this case, precisely how they forage for food.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of experiments were set up to establish this. The researchers designed a two-option puzzle box that could be opened either by pushing a red tab clockwise or a blue tab counter-clockwise to reveal a 50% sucrose solution reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has shown that bumblebees pick up new \u201ctrends\u201d in their behavior by watching and learning from other bees, and that one form of a behavior can spread rapidly through a colony even when a different version gets discovered. The research, led by Queen Mary University of London and published in PLOS Biology, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}