Not only humans, bees are also stressed out for work

Have you ever been in overwork, fatigue, and confused mind? Recent research shows that honey bees also fall into a similar situation, and perhaps we understand why.

Can not say that the life of a honey bee is easy to breathe. Every day, bees have to make many trips with long distances to gather important resources from chalk and nectar. They face predators, harsh weather conditions, and the risk of being lost.

The above stressful bile-taking journey makes the bee's ability to solve the problem of problematic problems.

According to Quartz, like chronic stress syndrome affecting human neurological functions, a recent study has shown that the above stressful bile-taking journeys make the ability to solve problems. bees' populations are reduced when it changes the connection between specific neurons in the brain.

Get honey with high intensity mental health effects of bees

The researchers investigated the impact of the act of collecting honey bee problem-solving skills using radio tags to track bees separately. They tested the ability to distinguish between different bees of honey bees - which is an important skill to determine which flowers produce pollen and nectar in the environment.

After that, they continue to test the ability to switch goals between flowers when the scent changes to alert the presence or disappearance of food. This is very important to the process of finding honey effectively, because different flowers produce chalk and nectar at different times of the year.

Honey bees also need to work with the best mental state to navigate between flowers and nests, otherwise they will not be able to gather enough food for the community.

Research results show that bees that have been involved in finding bile for a long time or at a high frequency will be less likely to learn new flavors. Researchers believe that the cause of this is probably stress. Stress in mammals makes them difficult to learn, similar to bees, and another recent study also said that stressed bees will have poor work performance.

For young bees - which are poorly resistant to environmental conditions - finding bile is particularly stressful. Surprisingly, the search for honey has such a bad effect on bees, although before that, this activity was considered a valuable time for neurological training in a large and complex environment.

Bees involved in finding bile for a long time or at a high frequency will be less able to learn new flavors.

The researchers also identified changes in brain structure that affect learning ability, which comes from stress. High-intensity honey bees find more connections between the areas of the brain used to treat flavors and an area involved in learning and memory. This finding raises the interesting possibility that future studies will probably predict the ability to solve problems just by looking at the structure of a brain.

Why are we interested in bees?

The decline of honey bees - also known as "Colony Collapse Disorder" - is a global problem. We do not know exactly what is happening with the bee population in Australia, but the decline in New Zealand and the US has exceeded the level of sustainability.

Bees contribute to Australia's economy of about 73.6 million USD per year. Determining the stressors for bees can help us manage and minimize their disappearance.

Perhaps countries should learn from the European Union, which recently ordered the ban on the use of insecticides containing neonicotinoids , a chemical that directly affects the bee's brain. Further, we will be able to develop simple tests for bee guards to test their ability to solve problems. Thus, bees can identify weak populations before they collapse, by finding early problems and protecting the health of the whole population.