Bees on Cocaine Dance With More Passion

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


That headline wasn't any kind of euphemism. Yesterday the New York Times reported on a study that found that when bees were given cocaine, they do their food dance more often. When bees find food, they come back to the hive and do a dance to alert the entire hive of their find. But they dance only when they find a lot of food that could benefit the entire hive, not just everytime they find any amount of food.

This report found that coked-up bees are more likely to dance, even if they discover a quantity of food that isn't "dance-worthy" under non-cokey circumstances.

The point of me posting this: To show off that I read the New York Times yesterday.