FOR KIDS: Another buzz for bees

FOR KIDS: Another buzz for bees

Blooms are more memorable when their nectar contains caffeine

By Stephen Ornes

Web edition: March 25, 2013

Blooms are more memorable when their nectar contains caffeine

By Stephen Ornes

Web edition: March 25, 2013

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The caffeine in some flower nectar gives bees a memory boost, new data show.

Credit: Image courtesy of Geraldine Wright

Coffee drinkers aren?t the only ones getting a brain boost from a little caffeine. The drug improves honeybees? long-term memory, a new study shows. Bees are more likely to remember flowers that had caffeine in their nectar.

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Citations

R. Ehrenberg. Caffeine?s buzz attracts bees to flowers. Science News Online. March 7, 2013. [Go to]

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349196/title/FOR_KIDS_Another_buzz_for_bees

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