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Bumblebees Show Surprising Time-Processing Abilities in Study

11/16/2025

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Queen Mary University of London researchers show bumblebees can distinguish short and long visual cues.
In a maze, bees learned to pair a short flash with sugar and a long flash with a bitter substance.
They correctly identified the duration-based cue, indicating time-processing abilities beyond prior observations.
The study, published in Biology Letters, suggests such cognitive traits may be intrinsic to nervous systems and could inform artificial neural networks.

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Queen Mary University of London researchers show bumblebees can distinguish short and long visual cues.
In a maze, bees learned to pair a short flash with sugar and a long flash with a bitter substance.
They correctly identified the duration-based cue, indicating time-processing abilities beyond prior observations.
The study, published in Biology Letters, suggests such cognitive traits may be intrinsic to nervous systems and could inform artificial neural networks.