


What is it like to be a bee? (Part 2)
Author: Heather Broccard-Bell, Ph.D., Honey Bee Health Researcher It’s safe to say that how honey bees experience the world is quite different from how humans experience the world. While we will always be influenced by our specific sensory systems, we can aim to...
What is it like to be a bee? (Part 1)
Author: Heather Broccard-Bell, Ph.D., Honey Bee Health Researcher In 1974, the American philosopher Thomas Nagel published an essay called, “What is it Like to Be a Bat?” [1]. In it, he argued that we can never really know because everything about how we perceive the...