Caffeinated Forage Tricks Honeybees (VIDEO)

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In this video, Couvillon et al. show that naturally occurring caffeinated forage tricks honeybees into acting as if nectar quality, measured by bees as sugar content, is higher than it really is. Workers increase foraging and recruitment behaviors, which ultimately quadruples colony-level recruitment, tempting the colony into sub-optimal foraging strategies.

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Couvillon et al./<i>Current Biology</i> 2015

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