Buzz bomb.The evidence at best is fuzzy for bee recognition of faces ("Face Time: Bees can tell apart human portraits," SN: 12/3/05, p. 360). Both sugar water and quinine quinine (kwī`nīn', kwĭnēn`), white crystalline alkaloid with a bitter taste. Before the development of more effective synthetic drugs such as quinacrine, chloroquine, and primaquine, quinine was the specific agent in the treatment of have unique odors Odors anosmia Medicine. the absence of the sense of smell; olfactory anesthesia. Also called anosphrasia. — anosmic, adj. halitosis bad breath; an unpleasant odor emanating from the mouth. that are probably readily recognizable by bees. And what do the feeders look like in the bee spectral spectral /spec·tral/ (spek´tral) pertaining to a spectrum; performed by means of a spectrum. spec·tral adj. Of, relating to, or produced by a spectrum. range? JACQUES M. DULIN, SEQUIM, WASH. For the test of bees' face recognition, the researchers used empty, identical feeders to avoid just such clues. |
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