Bees and Birds Are Drinking Alcohol From Flowers

As bees and hummingbirds move from flower to flower collecting nectar and pollinating plants, they may also be consuming small amounts of alcohol. In the first large-scale study examining alcohol in floral nectar, biologists at the University of California, Berkeley detected ethanol in at least one flower sample from 26 of the 29 plant species [...]

from SciTechDaily https://ift.tt/S1okewO