How Bees go Shopping and find their way home again
| Day |
Saturday |
| Date | 21st October 2023 |
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| Time |
10:30 - 12:30 |
| Cost |
£12.00 |
| Room |
Main Hall |
| THIS EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED |
| Availability |
30/30 Places
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| Event Description |
Many ants, bees and wasps collect food and bring it back to their nest to feed their young. This two-way journey may be repeated many times in a day. Examined in detail, the journey demands a variety of skills involving a mixture of inborn abilities and learned ones. For instance, an insect after exploring for food must know how to return to its nest and on its next trip find the same or search for a better foraging spot. Skills that we see now are the result of gradual evolution. For a visible sign of the evolution of all an insect’s behavioural skills, we can look at its brain that underpins all its behaviour. A bee brain has a million neurons formed into intricate networks, whereas the less sophisticated house fly that does not have a nest or forage socially has 100,000 neurons.
This talk will discuss some of the interesting details of the foraging behaviour of ants and bees. |
Rottingdean Whiteway Centre