Press Packers Misha, Henry, Amy and Ben are helping scientists learn about bees by training them.
Here they explain more about their experiments:
"Our class are doing research about bees.
We have been learning with Dr Beau Lotto, who is a scientist from a university in London.
He is teaching us how to train bees so we can learn how they behave and maybe understand people more too.
We are training a hive of bees to learn a puzzle and we don't know what will happen!
Illusion
On the first day Beau and our head teacher showed us an illusion to see what we could actually see.
We went outside and used some special glasses and other equipment to show that we see the world in many different ways.
The bee matrix box where the bees are being trained
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We tried to put together a puzzle for the bees in a big glass box with colour slots in it, called a matrix.
We then trained the bees by making sure they got a reward when they went to the right colour.
Now we are testing the bees to see if they have figured out the puzzle we have set!
Predictions
Our prediction is that some bees are learning more quickly than others, just like humans do.
The next thing we will do is to look at our results and think about what the bees have learnt.
We then hope to publish our results to share what we have found with scientists."
Misha, 9, Henry, 9, Amy, 10, and Ben, 10, from Devon, England
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