May I introduce myself? I am a proud member of the bee community

Well, I must say, it was a bit of a shock when 20 of my peers were dropped into a separate enclosed space and we were trained to recognize five different flowers.

The blue ones contain sugar syrup. Nice though! So tricking us? Why not nectar? They probably want to keep that to themselves again.

The green enclosed quinine with a bitter taste. That's what every bee stuck its trunk in the air for. So mean, that stuff!

And all the other coloured flowers did or did not have glucose. Nice though!

They filmed us fluttering to the flowers. This is to see how long it took us to make a decision.

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