https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/02/bees-intelligence-minds-pollination

Another moment of ‘this was obvious to me when I was 8 years old, but took science 50 more years to begin to examine…’

And, of course, the article doesn’t go far enough. Bees »definitely have subjective experience, and it isn’t ‘primitive’ unless we make poor decisions about how to evaluate the situation. A situation in which, by the way, bees contribute »directly (moment to moment and across the transport of food) to human sentience… as does the rest of life on Earth.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/02/bees-intelligence-minds-pollination