Honey bee drones actually have a declamatory spectrum of personalities . Scientists found that some are homebodies , some are explorers , and no matter what they are , we can vary them .
There are some scientific studies for which the results do n’t count so much as the method of enquiry . For exemplar , when hoi polloi get wind that a team led by the University of Illinois has observe that beloved bees have personalities — and how to change those personality — the results of the study can be safely pushed apart while people centre on the enquiry , “ How in the world do you figure out that bee have personalities ? ”
The first step is defining what a “ personality ” is . Science has done this before with bothoctopusesandhumans . The delimitate trait of personality is a reproducible reception to similar input in dissimilar contexts . People ( who do have personalities ) do not respond to one barking weenie by creep in a corner and react to an out - of - control horse by running up to it . Octopuses , who do not have personalities have indicate that one day they will run from a foreign object while another twenty-four hours they will enquire it .
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Honey bee urtication are filled with self - sacrifice drones who , under the right circumstances , do n’t have a care for their life , lease alone personal preferences . Still , there are differences . Certain bees , while gathering food , tended to crop far and explore more than other poke . They did this systematically , but that alone was n’t enough to convince the investigator that they had personality . Then the hives develop until they had overgrown their homes . The colony had to burst . Before the split could happen , intrepid bee had to go out in hunting of newfangled nest sites . By requirement , these could n’t be too secretive to the other hives , or they two universe would compete . The most gewgaw - seeking prole bees reply to the crisis , scout out new areas to nuzzle , seek far beyond the scope of the regular hive .
Once researchers found bees that had freshness - seeking personality , they took a look at their biological make - up , finding genes expressed differently depending on the bee ’s tendency to try out new horizon . They then start monkey around with the various biological that determined personality in the bees . Glutamate and octopamine increased novelty - seeking behavior , make bees heady . Decreasing dopamine , however , lean to lessen the chemical reward for each danger and subdue the conduct .
So yes , as before long as we found out that bees had personality , we found a way to brainwash them . Even eerier than that , their more adventurous biological make - up matches with the biological make - up of our more adventurous human being . Chemically brainwash a bee is n’t that different from brainwashing a human being .
range : Jon Sullivan . ViaScience .
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