Solitary Bee Brains

Ceratine calcarata. The Packer Lab - Bee Tribes of the World, via Wikimedia Commons.

In my first article for Science Journal for Kids, I take on a paper about the brains of solitary bees. Scientists wondered if the brains of solitary bees grow larger as they age, like the brains of honeybees, so they measured the brains of solitary bees at different ages to see if experience affects the size of certain brain structures.

Check out the whole article here: What happens to mother bees’ brains as they age?