Social bees have bigger brain area for learning, memory: Smithsonian reports
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 08:14
in Biology & Nature
Who's in charge? Who's got food? The brain region responsible for learning and memory is bigger in social bee queens who may have to address these questions than in solitary queens, report scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute who study the tropical sweat bee species, Megalopta genalis in Panama. Their study is the first comparison of the brain sizes of social and non-social individuals of the same species...