Nicotine enhances bees ' activity

Nicotine-laced nectar can speed up a bumblebee ' s ability to learn flower colors, according to scientists. The researchers used artificial flowers in a tightly-monitored flight arena in the laboratory to mimic how flowering plants use animals as pollen carriers and reward pollinators with sugars found in floral nectar.
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