Nicotine enhances bees' activity
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 09:32
in Biology & Nature
Nicotine-laced nectar can speed up a bumblebee's ability to learn flower colors, according to scientists. The researchers used artificial flowers in a tightly-monitored flight arena in the laboratory to mimic how flowering plants use animals as pollen carriers and reward pollinators with sugars found in floral nectar.