Turner was the first scientist to prove certain insects could remember, learn and feel.
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The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ability to modify their behavior based on experience.
Some wasps are social insects, meaning they live in groups and have a queen.
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Bees aren’t the only species that has a queen.
You shall not pass. Scaptotrigona workers defend the entrance to their nest.
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New research shows stingless bees will assassinate their queen if she makes the wrong royal match.
Some of the most common painful stingers in the Australian bush are bulldog ants of the genus Myrmecia .
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Bees, wasps and ants – a group known as Hymenoptera – can claim the title of deadliest insects. How did they evolve to be so painful?