How does a tiny coffee pest consume enough caffeine to kill a human, without being harmed?
Monday, January 11, 2016 - 11:01
in Biology & Nature
The coffee berry borer is a plague that affects coffee crops, it has a detoxification system based on microbial communities, therefore, is able to perform its life cycle in this plant, exposed to high levels of caffeine, being able to consume the equivalent to 500 espressos, a level so high of the substance that it would kill a person.