Are bees addicted to caffeine and nicotine?

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 11:35 in Biology & Nature

Bees prefer nectar with small amounts of nicotine and caffeine over nectar that does not comprise these substances at all, a new study reveals. "This could be an evolutionary development intended, as in humans, to make the bee addicted," states one of the researchers who conducted the study.

Read the whole article on Science Daily

More from Science Daily

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net