Just What We Always Wanted: Buzzed Foraging Ants With Superior Learning Skills. But This Could Lead to a Better, Caffeinated Ant Trap, a New Study Suggests
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Ants who receive a caffeine-laced sugary reward become more efficient at navigating back to the reward s location compared to ants that only receive sugar. Researchers report on May 23 in the journal iScience that caffeinated ants move toward the reward via a more direct path but do not increase their speed, suggesting that caffeine improved their ability to learn.