Bees on cocaine: they dance more (this is real)

January 16th, 2009

OK so they gave some cocaine to bees to study the behavioral effect, on a biochemical level. It makes them “exaggeratedly enthusiastic about things that would not normally excite them.” Apparently when honeybees find a whole bunch of nectar they do a dance. Not every time they find food, only when it’s a big mama load. But the bees on coke got excited and danced way too much, every time. 

You need to read this article over at the New York Times… 

For the record, I’ve never done drugs in my life. I don’t find it cool!!!

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4 Responses to “Bees on cocaine: they dance more (this is real)”

  1. solitary_bee_guy says:
    January 16, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    Interesting heads up – I think it may result in the Colony Collapse Disorder that honey bees, are suffering. In fact it may be Cocaine collapse Disorder. Inspired me to expound on the theory: http://solitarybee.com/blog/2009/01/is-colony-collapse-disorder-cocaine-induced/
    Now I have to lie down.

  2. Solitary Bee Blog » Blog Archive » Collony Collapse Disorder, or could it be Cocaine? says:
    January 16, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    [...] Just started Twittering so if you are interested in little pieces of news about my bee project, get an account and follow me @ http://www.twitter.com/solitarybee.   The advantage of this is that I just got a scoop on another possible cause of Collony Collapse Disorder (a name given to the mysterious and worrying disappearance of European Honey Bee colonies). Thanks to someone tweeting about an article on A-Trak’s Blog [...]

  3. KillFrenzy says:
    January 17, 2009 at 4:51 am

    “For the record, I’ve never done drugs in my life. I don’t find it cool!!! ”

    Damn right !!! way to set an example ! , I tot get the underlying message. The motherload and dancing to much everytime …

    Peace , Kill Frenzy

  4. Colon Collapse Disorder says:
    January 26, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    “OK so they gave some cocaine to young and fashionable hipsters to study the behavioral effect, on a biochemical level. It makes them “exaggeratedly enthusiastic about things that would not normally excite them.” Apparently when hipsters find a whole bunch of other hipsters they do a dance. Not every time they find a boy/girlfriend, only when it’s a big mama load. But the hipsters on coke got excited and danced way too much, every time. “

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