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Nature / 22 July 2016

Behavioural ecology: Bees like their pollen sweet

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.

Via: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nature/rss/current/~3/ke_TZOBYIk8/535327d

Tagged: #Conservation, #Wildlife

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