>... bees "learn how to do any task" BETTER than instinct prompts, and
thereby change their methodology or enhance their performance?

Here are a few of the more recent papers published in this vein:

'Bumblebees acquire alternative puzzle-box solutions via social learning' -
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.300201
9

'Social learning of a challenging two-step action sequence fulfils key
criteria of cumulative culture in an insect' -
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.29.555358v1.full.pdf

'The establishment and transmission of novel foraging techniques indicates a
capacity for culture in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)' -
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2022/10/13/2022.10.10.511574.f
ull.pdf

'Different effects of reward value and saliency during bumblebee visual
search for multiple rewarding targets' -
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-021-01479-3

Dr. Chittka touches on many of these experiments in the previously
referenced Linnean Society video, complete with video examples to help
underscore the research observations.

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