Roosevelt Standard | 1935-07-18 | Page 6 | Bee's "Sweet Tooth"

bees bee sweet tooth though they deal in nectar and loney lioney all their lives bees do not cot have bave as sensitive a sweet tooth as human buman beings it has been discovered by prof karl von frisch of munich science service reported that pro sessor bessor von frisch had trained bees to expect supplies of ordinary 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 fifth that strong g literary digest