How Bumblebees Make Smart Decisions: Inside their flexible learning strategies

How do bumblebees decide which flowers to visit? They weigh colors, shapes, and patterns—but not all at once. In this episode, Dr. Anna Stöckl shares surprising research revealing that bumblebees are strategic learners who constantly trade off the cost of learning new information against the payoff of making accurate choices. Discover how these tiny insects switch strategies based on what's easy to learn, and what a psychological phenomenon called "blocking" tells us about their intelligence.