Researchers through a study found that just as several humans who just cannot think starting their day without having a good dose of caffeine, bees also love to do the same and flowers use this addiction for their advantage.

The researchers in the study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology looked at the behavior patterns of three hives containing tagged honeybees. The team observed the bees as they collected nectar from one to two feeders.

According to the study, one of the nectar contained an 'unscented sucrose solution' and the other one had caffeine at a concentration found naturally in nectar.

The researchers during the study noted that bees did more foraging once they collected the nectar. It was also found that bees even tried to recruit their fellow foragers to the sources that contained caffeine with waggle dances. Waggle dance is a specific movement bees use to communicate to tell the distance and direction of food sources.

According to study researchers, bees were also less inclined to find other sources of nectar and even increased their recruitment behavior almost four times after they taste the nectar.

Roger Schürch, a biostatistician at the University of Bern's Clinical Trials Unit, said, "The effect of caffeine is akin to drugging, where the honey bees are tricked into valuing the forage as a higher quality than it really is. The duped pollinators forage and recruit accordingly".

The researchers said that some flowers are also using naturally occurring caffeine to attract the bees back to their nectar. The nectar with caffeine had smaller concentrations of sugar that could lead to weight loss among the bees and can cause decrease in honey production, according to the study.