Book Review: The Mind of a Bee by Lars Chittka

After finishing this book, I keep thinking about bees constantly. They are amazing, you know, with their own personalities and cognitive capacities. Their brains evolve to the task they will carry out (chicken or egg thing here, who knows. Though, for example, foragers’ brains grow larger before they leave the nest.) Some are morning bees. Others like to explore, and some stick to what they know. Queen bees never leave the nest and battle with other queens for their colony. Queen bees are fed di...