Over on tiktok user @nomadicpancakes has observed a group of #bees that have learned to turn on the sensor on a water bottle filling station by walking over the target.
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Over on tiktok user @nomadicpancakes has observed a group of #bees that have learned to turn on the sensor on a water bottle filling station by walking over the target.
This is just the kind of thing bees are made to learn, they love targets and need to follow them when dealing with flowers all the time.
The interesting thing is that the bee who hits the target produces water for her sisters, herself less so. But these #eusocial girls seem to have that worked out!
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Over on tiktok user @nomadicpancakes has observed a group of #bees that have learned to turn on the sensor on a water bottle filling station by walking over the target.
This is just the kind of thing bees are made to learn, they love targets and need to follow them when dealing with flowers all the time.
The interesting thing is that the bee who hits the target produces water for her sisters, herself less so. But these #eusocial girls seem to have that worked out!
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Over on tiktok user @nomadicpancakes has observed a group of #bees that have learned to turn on the sensor on a water bottle filling station by walking over the target.
This is just the kind of thing bees are made to learn, they love targets and need to follow them when dealing with flowers all the time.
The interesting thing is that the bee who hits the target produces water for her sisters, herself less so. But these #eusocial girls seem to have that worked out!
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@futurebird Cool! But those are not bees, they are yellow jackets (a type of wasp) and they are probably trying to build a nest using the sensor hole as an entrance.
To see a higher res version of the video go to the link-- they are honeybees.
I kinda wish they were yellow jackets since those poor girls could use a cute video that people like.
Yellow jackets get so much hate... although they can be annoying.
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To see a higher res version of the video go to the link-- they are honeybees.
I kinda wish they were yellow jackets since those poor girls could use a cute video that people like.
Yellow jackets get so much hate... although they can be annoying.
@futurebird
I once sat next to a yellow jacket who contently ate the strawberry jam from my sandwich (I offered). She left me alone to eat my sandwich sitting on the same bolder. [the video]But another time, I got a little too close to their nest, and I had to run as fast as I could as they chased me. I got stung and somehow ended up with a decapitated head of a yellow jacket in my t-shirt.
Their lookalike, paperWasps, are lovely, timid creatures who always hanging around my birdbaths. I love and welcome them.
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@futurebird
I once sat next to a yellow jacket who contently ate the strawberry jam from my sandwich (I offered). She left me alone to eat my sandwich sitting on the same bolder. [the video]But another time, I got a little too close to their nest, and I had to run as fast as I could as they chased me. I got stung and somehow ended up with a decapitated head of a yellow jacket in my t-shirt.
Their lookalike, paperWasps, are lovely, timid creatures who always hanging around my birdbaths. I love and welcome them.
@otterX they can be moody.