Show bee bees sweet tooth though they deal in nectar and honey all th their air lives bees do not have as sensitive a sweet tooth as human beings it has been discovered by prof kari von frisch of munich science service reported that pro sessor von had I 1 trained I 1 bee bees to expect supplies of ordinary cane bugar 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 fifth that strong literary digest |