Honeybees smell a rat and outsmart flowers

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 09:49 in Biology & Nature

Bees can quickly learn which flowers produce the best nectar by the way they smell, even when they smell extremely similar. This finding, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, has helped scientists to understand how flowers evolved to smell the way they do...

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