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Though people might not realize it, insects (côn trùng) display a number of complex behaviors, such as building sophisticated (tinh vi) nests and dividing labor within colonies. “[Bumblebees] have some of the most intricate, complex behavioral repertoires in the animal kingdom. Yet people assume that they’re mostly driven by innate factors,”

researchers designed petri dish-like puzzle boxes that bees could open either by pushing a red tab clockwise or a blue tab counter-clockwise. Inside, the boxes contained a sugary treat. The researchers trained a few select buff-tailed bumblebees to open the box using just one of the colored tabs—some were taught to use the red tab, and the others were taught to use the blue one. Scientists then placed a trained bee, called a “demonstrator,” along with additional puzzle boxes, into each of ten colonies.

The colonies that were introduced to a red tab-pushing bee predominantly used the red tab to get at the sugar, while colonies with a blue tab expert mostly used the blue tab. In fact, the bees used the same tab as the demonstrator 98.6 percent of the time, on average.

While some bees did discover that they could open the box just as well by using the other tab, that strategy didn’t last. “Even when they found the easy alternative, they still flipped back to the demonstrated behavior,”

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