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Honey bee chemoreceptors found for smell and taste
10-25-2006 · EurekAlert!Honey bees have a much better sense of smell than fruit flies or mosquitoes, but a much worse sense of taste, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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