Bumblebees kept in isolation make up for it by being more social later

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/07/12/bumblebees-kept-isolation-make-it-being-more-social-later

by rntn • 4 years ago

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gruberjl• 4 years ago

It's always fascinating to see social interactions in animals.

hailpixel• 4 years ago

it's me.

thedebuglife• 4 years ago

This is the reason I love opening HN in the morning. I very much have lived experience with this as well. Thanks for sharing.

fsckboy• 4 years ago

It's a little sloppy to use the language "make up for it" which makes it sound like they are compensating. The hypothesis they present is that perhaps the bees don't learn how not to react to other bees with the suggestion that this might make them more "distractable" (my word) from the task at hand, so ADHB

and as a small point, suggesting that they "blossomed into social butterflies"...?

jrochkind1• 4 years ago

I too was caught on the heavily mixed metaphor of bees... blossoming... into butterflies... what?

evilotto• 4 years ago

We're all bumblebees now.

josefrichter• 4 years ago

Perhaps programmers can learn a thing or two from bumblebees?

Bumblebees kept in isolation make up for it by being more social later

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