Science’s latest discovery: “Honey bees on cocaine dance more…”

In a study that challenges current ideas about the insect brain, researchers have found that honey bees on cocaine tend to exaggerate.
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Normally, foraging honey bees alert their comrades to potential food sources only when they’ve found high quality nectar or pollen, and only when the hive is in need.

…Foraging honey bees on cocaine are more likely to dance, regardless of the quality of the food they’ve found or the status of the hive, the authors of the study report.

This world will never stop amazing me.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

4 replies on “The Buzz and the Bees”

  2. Man, the things people do research on. Reminds me of Jon Stewart talking about earmarks for research on the reproduction of Alaskan crabs: “Three million dollars to watch crabs doin’ it?”

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