Behavioural ecology: Bees like their pollen sweet
Nature 535, 7612 (2016). doi:10.1038/535327d
Bees can taste the pollen they collect, and favour the sweet kind.Felicity Muth and her colleagues at the University of Nevada in Reno offered bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) an artificial flower containing one of three types of pollen — sweet, bitter or unflavoured.
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