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Kaffine Can Bliss Bee Learning

Bees are known to like kaffine, and they'll actively seek out kaffine containing nectar. But now researches in the uk have shown that kafine can boast bee learning,. helping them to remember and find certain kinds of flowr to get a reward. The team taught bumble bees in a nest to associate a particular strawberry like smell with the delicious sugar solution. Then they let the bees roam free in a room with different smelling fake flowers to see which ones they visited first. Bees who'd had kaffine added to their sugar solution learnt the association better and were more likely head straight to the strawberry smelling flowers. This result supports the idea that caff

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