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Loss of Bees Can Affect Plants' Ability to Reproduce, Study Finds
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The loss of bees and other pollinators around the world is already cause for concern. Now two researchers who studied bumblebees in Colorado have added a new worry, identifying the perils of bumblebee infidelity not to other bees, but to their floral partners. Berry J. Brosi, an assistant professor
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