In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a ...

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Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual ...

Bumblebees have shown they can read simple Morse code by distinguishing between short and long flashes of light. Researchers trained bees in a maze to associate short flashes (“dots”) or long flashes ...

Since decoding the “waggle dance” in the 1940s, bees have been at the forefront of research into insect intellect. A new study shows that bees can be trained to understand the dot-dash behavior of ...

In Morse code, a short duration flash or ‘dot’ denotes a letter ‘E’ and a long duration flash, or ‘dash’, means letter ‘T’. Until now, the ability to discriminate between ‘dot’ and ‘dash’ has been ...

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A new study is the first to show that an insect can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual cues. In Morse code, a short duration flash or "dot" denotes a letter "E" and ...