`Bug Brains' Might Not Be an Insult ; This Classic Dave Barry Column Was Originally Published On Aug. 25, 1996.

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Today's science topic is insect intelligence. I don't know about you, but I've always taken comfort in the idea that insects are stupid. For example, if I'm outdoors and a bee lands on me and starts walking around on my head - causing me to turn rigid with fear, terrified that, if I move, the bee will become angry and sting me in the eyeball - I always reassure myself by thinking: "This bee does not wish to harm me! Its tiny brain is confused! It thinks I am a flower!"

But now I have received, from alert reader Greg Stevens, a news item by the Reuters news service concerning an experiment, conducted by bee scientists at the Free University of Berlin, suggesting that bees are not so dumb after all.

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`Bug Brains' Might Not Be an Insult ; This Classic Dave Barry Column Was Originally Published On Aug. 25, 1996.

The article says that these scientists, whose names are Lars and Karl, set up various landmarks between a beehive and a bee feeder. After the bees had located the feeder, Lars and Karl started changing the ...

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