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Some Bees Are Addicted to Caffeine (albanydailystar.com)
mdsolar shares a new article about plants which produce caffeine to attract bees and encourage repeat visits to help with their pollination. "Scientists at the University of Sussex said they thought the plants produce the caffeine in their nectar to fool bees into thinking it contains more sugar than it actually does," reports the Albany Daily Star. In addition, bees communicate by "dancing" for their colleagues, and the caffeinated bees danced faster, inadvertently directing the other bees to revisit those flowers, even after nectar had run dry. "If they just had one, three-hour exposure to the caffeinated nectar on the first day," one researcher said, "they would come back for many more days, and more often within each day."
They literally repost months-old stories as if they're brand new. This one was posted on CNET in October.
Maryland has passed the first restrictions on neonicotinoids to help avert Colony Collapse Disorder. http://mdcoastdispatch.com/201...
You and bee both. Mee both. Be mothe! Me both!!
So bees add tea to their honey?
"Contrrol the alcohol level... "
Here in Arizona the Africanized bees have taken over completely from the former European bees, so the plants are learning to make their nectar taste like Colt 45.
Just say No
That explains a lot.
Makes sense. Plants didn't evolve to produce caffeine without there being a selection pressure towards it. This is presumably how that pressure originated, before humans got involved.
No wonder bees are so easily attracted to my Mountain Dew.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Based on the long line I see walking past my local Starbucks every day.
I've been to quite a few farms here in Indiana, and there are no worms. No worms.
Because those republicans love poison.
Small farmers are hurt more by the republican bee kill off so u just know they're responsible.
The original article has no published date but the source view shows "2016-04-02T20:32:01-04:00" which smells a lot April 1st fodder to me.
That's sad.
Republicans are deluded.
Rising waters rise all ships which is why they are against that.
Given past history, the kill of all life that isn't a rich white old man will just continue.
Certain high places government agencies have been created to conceal that fact.
And no one talks about it because it is a conspiracy of silence.
So bee worker bees are addicted to caffeine in just the same way as human worker bees?
I'm not surprised. Sometimes I think caffeine is the only thing that lets me survive the office with my dignity and sanity intact.
If they kill off the bees most of humanity will not make it out alive.
The party line is that there is no bee kill off.
This. Republicans tnrerfere will all same businesses. They hate them.
You are getting too close to the truth. Your life might be in danger.
That's a right smart sentence you writ there young man. Here, have a sodey.
When money for our children's education is cut we know it's because those Republicans want us to remain ignorant so they can be used and manipulated more easily.
And cut to build more secret underground bases.
Or that US flag you can see from outer space.
Republicans ironically justify penalizing us for exposing this while at the same time denying the existence of a problem.
Yeah, right. Make sure everybody is watching the Brazilian Kardashian so they be very productive on Facebook tomorrow, You marketing farm assholes. Since my brain is working better now, before You think on coming here again, know that I'm praticing to say "VAI PROCURAR TUA TURMA MOSQUITO FILHA DA PUTA" if I spot your stalking shit bukakke collector trash head again.
That's how they be.
We need to expose the truth. If we had a dialog about this maybe the truth will wander in by accident.
Won't happen as long as those republicans have so many weapons. So many weapons.
Considering he's a New York City liberal, I think you're wrong.
Corporate farming is destroying the land.
And by forming corporations, family farms are avoiding the death tax.
On the bright side, if we die they'll probably die too.
Those farmers are just soldiers doing their job to help kill off the poor.
To their kind, the lies, the betrayals, the conspiracy to hide the truth is just part of doing their job.
I wish their kind wasn't so against space travel so they'd get the hell off of this planet.
Nixon destroyed space travel by ending Apollo and supporting the dove shuttle.
Sooner or later the truth will come out!
Our people have a long history of wars, especially when the government fails to live up to their promise. That is why the government can't admit to failing to protect the bees.
is that bees are just emulating Caucasians. By dancing, they are essentially tricking a whole bunch of male bees to keep crushing that flower, but are those bees getting the flowers to sign consent forms? If not, the bees are essentially raping the flowers, and that is bad. Flowers have rights.
But those republicans are too stupid to understand that so they vote for him anyway.
The site is not affiliated with any newspaper. It is not affiliated with the California Turkish Times (like the about page says) it is a completely bogus site that just scrapes articles from other sites.
Considering he's a New York City liberal, I think you're wrong.
Correct, and it's bizarre how nearly half of the Republicans in their primaries have voted for them. They just don't know enough to know the truth.
I disagree with you, but kudos for using to and too correctly.
I wish their kind wasn't so against space travel so they'd get the hell off of this planet.
When it's privately run, we're in favor of space travel. The problem with public programs is not so much the money in comparison to other spending, but that the fear-driven lefty Luddites can prevent NASA from doing anything really adventurous. Thus we get an endless series of science fair experiments in LEO.
This. I haven't yet met a politician who would endanger himself so they must have a plan.
We should let the truth back in the room, and the truth will take care of itself.
Because of those republicans the Earth is no longer constant or forever.
Avoiding the death tax is morally wrong.
So many republican scams are centered around avoiding the death tax.
Psst, Buddy. You want some of this? The first hit is free.
It's weird how Republicans blame their problems on liberals without even thinking about it. JFK set the path for the moonshot. Both Republicans and Democrats have been pulling back ever since.
As for corporate space travel, throw in private sphere Challenger and Columbia, then watch all the corporate money run for the exits. Liberals won't have anything to do with it.
"It's weird how Republicans blame their problems on liberals without even thinking about it. JFK set the path for the moonshot."
When liberals won't even build a telescope on a barren mountaintop for fear of the Stone Age volcano gods, what hope do they have of ever running a real space program? Today's left would never have let JFK do anything as risky as going to the moon, and all the giant infrastructure projects of Roosevelt's New Deal would still be tied up in court.
Racist joke gets a +3 funny? That's fucked up..
So, the flowers produce a drug to get them pollinated more often? I demand that these flowers be prosecuted for date rape of the innocent bees!
>JFK set the path for the moonshot
I could be wrong about US politics, but that was because the "red menace" had sent a man to space already, yes?
Which party in the US is most jingoistic and displays the most fear of other countries being better than the US?
Now tell me which party is most likely to be interested in it.
FWIW, as an outsider, your parties are the same. Then again, all three (some would say four, LOL) major parties in my country (Canada) are the same as well, but that tends to be the case when you're a libertarian here.
It's at 5 now. Slashdot has been going reactionary for a while now. The smart people left, and the remains are not pretty, unless you enjoy watching a train-wreck.
It is, but you can report it
Don't blame that on liberals. I am rather liberal and I think we should build the darn telescope.
Just because you can find a few whacked out hippies supporting something doesn't mean it is something that all most or even a reasonable amount of liberals would support.
Unless you want me to color you with the actions of other righties. Shall we talk about Trump? What about Cruz? What about those are the only two candidates you righties could come up with.
FYI roaches seem to get drunk on coffee -- they can even overdose themselves to death.
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'nuff said.
That's fucked up..
No. It is funny. At least, it is for those of us with a sense of humor. Lighten up.
Here we have an article about apiology and the comments are littered with partisan poo flinging. It is probably the Republican's fault. I love election years. /s
mod up! mod up! mod up!
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
Considering he's a New York City liberal, I think you're wrong.
Correct, and it's bizarre how nearly half of the Republicans in their primaries have voted for them. They just don't know enough to know the truth.
The Southern Strategy wasn't exactly about instructing the masses in the intricacies of strict constructionism and the Laffer Curve. The Republicans should change their symbol from the elephant to the pander bear.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
Republicans are deluded.
Liberal lies! They were never luded in the first place, how could they be deluded?
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
I wish their kind wasn't so against space travel so they'd get the hell off of this planet.
When it's privately run, we're in favor of space travel. The problem with public programs is not so much the money in comparison to other spending, but that the fear-driven lefty Luddites can prevent NASA from doing anything really adventurous. Thus we get an endless series of science fair experiments in LEO.
Is this a good time to point out how much publicly funded research Musk et al are building on with their really adventurous plans for a launch vehicle?
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
but where did the smart people go???
Shall we talk about Trump? What about Cruz? What about those are the only two candidates you righties could come up with.
You don't pay much attention, do you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Kasich is still in the primaries, and there were about a dozen others that dropped out, how do you only see the Republicans coming up with only two candidates? The Democratic Party only has two left, but even they started out with more.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Those programs are even being publically funded as well, just like all private space, it is the same as "public" space, which was a bunch of corporations doing the work as well.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?