Researchers at NC State University recently published a paper about wild bee abundance in relationship to urban warming.
The paper challenges the idea that planting more flowers will attract more pollinators. Although the number of larger bees do increase as flower populations increase, populations of small bees tend to decline at some of the hottest sites. Continue reading
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