Mammals, often, need to be taught by their parents skills and behaviours. This doesn’t seem to be the case with insects which are pretty much “Programmed” to live how they are meant to. Why?

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Mammals, often, need to be taught by their parents skills and behaviours. This doesn’t seem to be the case with insects which are pretty much “Programmed” to live how they are meant to. Why?

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Answer 1

Some collective insects learn skills from their elders. Bees, for example: newly hatched bees are given the task of cleaning the hive of debris. Later on, they are taught to forage and spend the next part of their life gathering nectar and pollen. Then later on in their life cycle, they tend to the eggs, larvae and queen.

Nature is great in that it is not always so clean-cut.