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Nature Walk: Bumblebees

Posted on August 31, 2015 at 10:00 AM by Kerri Sorrell

Bumblebees probably aren’t given enough credit for the pollination services they perform. They’re a life-sustainer for a host of native flowers and some agricultural crops, like red clover, a hay crop. Here we see one preparing to enter a bottle gentian flower, which they have to physically open to get inside to collect the nectar, and on a tall thistle.

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