FOR BEES, DIET ISN'T ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL

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Northwestern University posted the following news release: *** * * Link to: Northwestern Now Story * New study tracked eight bumble bee species in the wild across eight years * Scientists recorded which flowers bees visited and calculated macronutrients in pollen from 35 flower species * Bee species

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Species (16)

Two-form Bumble Bee

Bumble Bees

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee

Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee

Golden-belted Bumble Bee

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Bombus appositus

Bombus occidentalis

Bombus frigidus

Bombus fervidus

Bombus californicus

Bombus nevadensis

Bombus mixtus

Bombus rufocinctus

Bombus hypocrita

native plants