Intelligence in an insect: Bumblebees break new ground with timing skills that baffle researchers

For years, scientists believed that only humans and a handful of vertebrates could tell the difference between short and long durations, a skill as fundamental as reading the dots and dashes of Morse code. But researchers at Queen Mary University of London have turned that assumption on its head, proving that buff-tailed bumblebees can do something previously thought impossible for insects: distinguish between different lengths of light flashes and use that information to find food.

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