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Show Bee's "Sweet Tooth" Though they deal in nectar and honey all their lives, bees do not have as sensitive a "sweet tooth" as human beings, it lias been discovered discov-ered by I'rof. Karl von Frlsch of Munich. Science Service reported that Fro-sessor Fro-sessor Von Friseh had "trained" bees to expect supplies of ordinary cane-sugar cane-sugar solution at a given place. When they became used to visiting It regularly, he cut down the strength of the solution. The lowest concentration the bees could detect as sweet was about 2 per cent sugar. Human beings get a sweet taste from sugar solutions only one-fiflh that strong. Literary Digest. |