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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."
Conrtorol the alcohol level, bourgeois pibg.
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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...
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So bees add tea to their honey?
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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.
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Based on the long line I see walking past my local Starbucks every day.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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!
FYI roaches seem to get drunk on coffee -- they can even overdose themselves to death.
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'nuff said.