Caffeinated Ants: Caffeine Boosts Focus in Experiments

Scientists experimented with giving ants caffeine to see if it would help them remember where food is.

They built a course with sugar water and caffeine, and watched the ants.

They found that a small amount of caffeine helped ants find the sugar faster because it helped them focus.

Too much caffeine, however, didn't help.

This could potentially help control invasive ant species by making them more attracted to poison bait, but the researchers are still testing.

This might also be dangerous to helpful insects like bees.