A recent study on honeybees argues that these insects among the few animals capable of doing arithmetic, despite their oval-shaped brains containing less than 1 million neurons compared to the human brain containing 100 billion. The study discovered that honeybees had the capability to add and subtract by putting the bees through an experiment that required them to be able to count and recognize colors. The 14 bees were put through a Y-shaped maze with multiple chambers to train them to add and subtract. The first thing the bees would encounter were shapes, in sets of either one, two, four…