13 Nov 2022

Dr Lars Chittka: Bees Like to Play

From Sunday Morning, 8:20 am on 13 November 2022

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have now discovered that bumblebees love to play ball games, and as with humans, young bumblebees like to play more than older ones do.

Leading the study was award-winning behavioural ecologist Dr Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary University in London and author of the book The Mind of a Bee.

18 August 2022, Hessen, Aarbergen: Using tweezers, bumblebee breeder Rüdiger Schwenk carefully took a bumblebee in his hand. (to dpa: "Of humming and pollinating: A visit to the bumblebee breeder") Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa (Photo by BORIS ROESSLER / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP)

Photo: BORIS ROESSLER