![Flower Petal Size Affects Spreading Of Bumblebee Parasite](https://beenews.newsx.agency/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Buzz-save-the-bees-01-300x250.jpg)
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)