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As bees and hummingbirds move from one flower to another, feeding on nectar while helping plants reproduce, they are also consuming something unexpected: small amounts of alcohol.
In the first large survey of alcohol in floral nectar, biologists at the University of California, Berkeley detected ethanol in at least one sample from 26 of the 29 plant species they examined. Most nectar samples contained only trace amounts, likely produced by yeast fermenting sug...
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