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How Honey Bees Think

Advances in neuroscience are at last giving us insight into what it might be like to think like a bee. The honey bee has evolved as the consummate generalist pollinator, and has become perhaps the most important insect pollinator of our food crops. Here I will talk about how honey bees think, and how we know how they think. I discuss how their thought processes influence their flower choices, and how bees’ long coevolution with flowers has shaped a bee’s type of intelligence and the bee brain.
Andrew Barron, PhD; Macquarie University, AU

June 2024 - Registration link coming soon

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Past Seminars

April 2024 - “The moral status of insects” (Jeff Sebo; New York University) - view recording here

March 2024 - “The needs and means of using non-lethal methods in entomological research” (Gabor Lövei, PhD; Aarhus University & University of Debrecen & Marco Ferrante, PhD; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) - view recording here

February 2024 - “Evaluating electrical stunning as a humane slaughter method for decapod crustaceans: Lessons learned when assessing sensitivity” (Amaya Albalat, PhD; University of Stirling, UK) - view slides here

December 2023 - “How the cricket feels and what the mealworm has to say: The influence of rearing environments on insect welfare in different food and feed production systems” (Alexander Haverkamp, PhD; Wageningen University, The Netherlands) - view recording here

October 2023 - “Insect Sentience” (Lars Chittka, PhD; Queen Mary University of London, UK) - view recording of comparable talk at UFAW, here

August 2023 - “How Can We Know What is Good for Insects?” (Heather Browning, PhD; Southhampton University, UK) - view recording here

June 2023 - “Insect welfare: Solid foundations for an emerging field” (Meghan Barrett, PhD; California State University Dominguez Hills, USA)