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Salts are obviously important for living species.  But I'm
struck by a possible paradox:  If you feed salty fluid to
a restrained forager, she refuses it and clearly treats it
as offensive.  So, can someone please enlighten me?  How
do bees crave salt, and yet treat it as noxious?
 
Thanks
 
John Batson
Greenville SC