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Why are flowers so different from one another? Much of the answer lies with pollinators: Their preferences and morphologies ...
When Sabrina Rondeau flooded the tiny containers holding hibernating bumblebee queens in her University of Guelph laboratory, she expected casualties. Instead, nearly nine out of ten queens survived a ...
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Larval development of Physocephala (Diptera, Conopidae) in the bumble bee Bombus morio (Hymenoptera, Apidae). In the summer of 2012, a high incidence of conopid larvae was observed in a sample of ...