Wilson showed us something in the New Scientist magazine that said flowers were now producing caffeine so that bees get addicted to it — that way the bees take less honey, but still pollinate the flowers because they're after their hit of Java!*
But we think that is a lot of nonsense — we get all the caffeine we need from the 17 or so cups we drink every day!
Anyway, what with Hallowe'en and the fact that we've been waggle-dancing non-stop we haven't had any sleep for about four days, so we're off now.
As soon as we've had another quad espresso each.
We'll see you next month — until then, Beeeeeeeeeeeee good!
*Current Biology, DOI: 10.1016/jcub2015.08.052
Margaret Couvillon, University of Sussex
New Scientist, 24 October 2015, p16
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