What the caffeine is doing is the plant manipulating the bee in a way that is good for the plant, but not so good for the bee because the bee is kind of being tricked into thinking that the nectar is of a higher quality - that is it has more sugar than it really does.

Francis Ratnieks

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What we found was that caffeine would have the effect of more sugar, the one that did have caffeine attracted more bees, but in particular the bees who were foraging made more dances, about four times as many dances.

Francis Ratnieks

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