Six little Indian boys playing with a hive

Of course, the real importance for bees is not the honey.

So what if bees can think like us?

For bees and flower blossoms, Springtime is all about two things feeding and fertilizing. See, the flowers want to pass their genes onto the next generation and the bees need to eat so that they can do the same.

Really, we wanted to know if bees can also adapt themselves to new situations using previously learned rules and conditions. So what if bees can think like us?

Now there's a number of different rules the bees can learn to solve this puzzle.

Cary, this is Grandpa Adams. He's a beekeeper and an artist.

Amy, can you tell us what the game was, and the puzzle that you set the bees?

So you can tailor your honey to taste however you want by planting bee friendly flowers.

Now there's a number of different rules the bees can learn to solve this puzzle. The interesting question is, which?

Really, we wanted to know if bees can also adapt themselves to new situations using previously learned rules and conditions.

Plants have evolved to create little landing strips here and there for bees that might have lost their way.

You just mix up some pollen, sugar and water, and whatever active ingredient you want to put in, and you just give it right to the bees.

Some other images here in telling a part of the story that really made urban beekeeping terrific is in New York City, beekeeping was illegal until 2010.

We're looking at ways to make bees healthier through vaccines, through yogurt, like probiotics, and other types of therapies in ways that can be fed orally to bees, and this process is so easy, even a 7 year old can do it.

Neonicotinoids are also extremely toxic to bees, which are essential to the pollination of flowering plants, and are seen as probably one of the causes behind the dramatic decrease in their numbers.

Now we don't know exactly what a bee sees, any more than you know what I'm seeing when I call this red.

BL So the next step was to design an experiment, which is a game. So the kids went off and they designed this experiment, and so well, game and so, Amy, can you tell us what the game was, and the puzzle that you set the bees?

Now we don't know exactly what a bee sees, any more than you know what I'm seeing when I call this red.