Mary Bates, PhD

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Multitasking Bumblebees: New on Zoologic

Photo: Jeremy Guil/Wikimedia Commons distributed under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 licenseBees can two do two things well. One, they learn to visit the most rewarding flowers among a vast array of choices. Two, they can spot and avoid camouflaged crab spiders, predators that sit on flowers and ambush visiting pollinators. But can they perform both of these tasks simultaneously?Read the whole story and find out: Bumblebees Multitask - When the Stakes Are High.