Honeybees’ Flower Preferences Could Lead To More Inbred Seeds
A honey bee visits a white sage plant, undated. Researchers have shown that pollination by honey bees, which are not native to the Americas, produces offspring of considerably inferior quality (lower fitness) than offspring resulting from native pollinators. (Dillon Travis, NewsX/Bee)

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Paris Lawyer Resigns To Focus On Beekeeping In The Countryside
Elodie Duca, 31, extracts summer flower honey, undated. She handed in her letter of resignation at the renowned lawyer's office she had been working for in Paris in 2020 to set up Jardin d'Elo, her own organic apiary in the small town of Beaupuy in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, southern France. (@le_jardin_d_elo, NewsX/Bee)

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Sisters, Aged 9 And 13, Help To Save Bees With Flower Seed Vending Machine
Picture shows Zohra, 13, (left) and Louisa Boucheloukh, 9, (right) in undated footage. The two sisters have raised hundreds of Euros to create a flower seed vending machine in a bid to ensure the existence of wild bee species. (NewsX/Bee)

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Flower Petal Size Affects Spreading Of Bumblebee Parasite
UMass Amherst research assistant Fiona MacNeill trimming one of the 105,000 flowers in undated photo. Certain physical traits of flowers affect the health of bumblebees by enabling the transmission of a harmful pathogen, research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shown. (Ben Barnhart, NewsX/Bee)

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