Coffee plants give bees a real buzz: Caffeine boost improves insect's memories and encourages them to pollinate them

Coffee plants give bees a real buzz: Caffeine boost improves insect's memories and encourages them to pollinate them,
March 8, 2013,
By By Emma Innes,
DailyMail.com,

Honeybees get a shot of caffeine from certain flowers to perk up their memory, a new study has found.

This caffeine burst encourages the bees to return to the same type of plant, boosting its chances of pollination.

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