# @centerforbiodiv on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cri2pawupva
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/5929617-centerforbiodiv-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/0cfe353895.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-04-27T15:27:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) — https://gondola.cc/CenterForBioDiv

## Caption

Bees are fascinating, hard-working and ... self-aware? 🐝 🧠 #ThatsWild

As bee expert and ecologist Stephen Buchmann just told The Guardian, these crucial pollinators feel complex emotions (such as pleasure and fear) and can process long-term memories while sleeping — which could have far-reaching ethical implications for how people treat bees. And may even mean they dream.

Video of a leafcutter bee emerging from a pollen-filled "bee-rito" by Emily Doorish.

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- **Likes:** 3,863
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- **Comments:** 79

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