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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
这是科学美国人60秒科学。我是Christopher Intagliata.
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We humans enjoy coffee and tea, to give our brains a caffeine boost.
我们人类享受咖啡和茶，为我们的大脑提供咖啡因。
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And bees sometimes sip nectar that naturally contains caffeine, which seems to enhance their memory.
蜜蜂有时会啜饮天然含有咖啡因的花蜜，这似乎可以增强他们的记忆力。
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Now a study suggests that bees enjoy another familiar drug produced by plants: nicotine.
现在一项研究表明，蜜蜂喜欢植物产生的另一种熟悉的药物：尼古丁。
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"As it turns out, not just in humans, but even the bees seem to have difficulties quitting."
“事实证明，不仅仅是在人类身上，甚至蜜蜂似乎也很难戒烟。”
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Lars Chittka, a professor of behavioral and sensory ecology at Queen Mary University of London.
Lars Chittka，伦敦玛丽女王大学行为与感官生态学教授。
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Chittka and his colleagues studied bumblebees as they visited fake flowers that contained varying levels of nicotine.
Chittka和他的同事研究了大黄蜂，因为他们参观了含有不同尼古丁含量的假花。
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Unnaturally high nicotine concentrations deterred the bees.
不自然的高尼古丁浓度阻止了蜜蜂。
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But at real-world levels, the drug attracted bees.
但在现实世界中，这种药物吸引了蜜蜂。
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And they even learned a flower's color faster, if that flower offered a nicotine fix.
如果那朵花提供了尼古丁修复，他们甚至可以更快地学会花的颜色。
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Sometimes bees paid a steep price for this preference.
有时蜜蜂为这种偏好付出了惨重的代价。
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"They returned actually to flowers that had previously sold them nicotine, so to speak, even if these flowers no longer contained nectar.
“他们实际上回到以前卖过尼古丁的花朵，可以这么说，即使这些花朵不再含有花蜜。
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Which might give nicotine-pushing plants, like tobacco, an edge.
这可能会给像烟草这样的尼古丁推动植物带来优势。
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"It provides these plant species with an unfair advantage over competing plants, because they can retain the faithful services of pollinators, even if they're offering suboptimal nectar in this case."
“它为这些植物物种提供了比竞争植物更不公平的优势，因为它们可以保留传粉媒介的忠实服务，即使它们在这种情况下提供次优的花蜜。”
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The results are in the journal Scientific Reports.
结果发表在科学报告期刊上。
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And if caffeine and nicotine have these effects on bees?
如果咖啡因和尼古丁对蜜蜂有这些影响吗？
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Perhaps natural floral pharmacies stock other drugs too-that enhance pollination, and give bees a buzz.
也许天然花卉药店也会储存其他药物，以增加授粉，并给蜜蜂带来嗡嗡声。
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Thanks for listening, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
感谢您对科学美国人60秒科学的倾听。我是Christopher Intagliata。