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Cultivating for color: The hidden trade-offs between garden aesthetics and pollinator preferences
Colorful gardens can be pollinator-friendly with native flowering plants. Borchee/E+ via Getty Images Claire Therese Hemingway, University of…
Pollen in pee: fossilised urine from a small African mammal helps us understand past environments
The lessons pollen can teach us are not to be sneezed at. Elisa Manzati Lynne Quick, Nelson Mandela…
Bees Eat Orchid “Counterfeit” Pollen—And They’re Just As Nutritious
A nondescript orchid, Cypripedium wardii, goes about its business inside a lush forest in Sichuan province, China. Nearby,…