Scientists tried to fool bumblebees into avoiding a flower. They failed in the best way.

Scientists tried to fool bumblebees into avoiding a flower. They failed in the best way.

Recently, scientists set out to prove just how smart bumblebees are. And since they couldn’t simply give them a multiple-choice test, they instead set up a bumblebee-sized obstacle course designed to fool the insects. The results? They discovered that bees may have problem-solving abilities similar to those of big-brained vertebrates. A study recently published in Science found bumblebees are even more cognitively advanced than we realized.  A b…