Bees given cocaine, page 1

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Food Dance Gets New Life When Bees Get Cocaine


To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees’ backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain.

The scientists found that bees react much like humans do: cocaine alters their judgment, stimulates their behavior and makes them exaggeratedly enthusiastic about things that might not otherwise excite them.

Only in Australia

Do we really need to do this kind of stuff,don't we know enough about the effects of cocaine use?

I wonder how many years they tried to get them to hold little straws before they tried freebasing.

reply to post by putnam6

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Now, scientists are studying whether bees begin to crave cocaine and need more for the same effect, like humans.

To what end?

Don't we have problems with bees disappearing?
Maybe this is a way to get them to keep coming back.

I suspect this whole thing was "concoketed" by students as an excuse.






[edit on 8 Jan 2009 by schrodingers dog]

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