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I am not an expert on insectology or beeology, I don't actually know do they learn or not. An emergent entity of a hive seems to be learning better than the individual insect, but we're learning so much about them even now, I don't feel comfortable to make any speculations.
I know about mammals a bit more, and know that humans do learn, but the hive mind learning works worse than in hiving insects.