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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.
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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Oh dear, some double checking suggest it may be real. The references actually check out and appears to date back to October 2015. I hate reading news at this time of the year as I never trust half what I read...
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.
The rest of the year you shouldn't trust 90% of what you read.
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.
"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..
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.
FYI roaches seem to get drunk on coffee -- they can even overdose themselves to death.
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'nuff said.
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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.
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?