Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync

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July 30th, 2024 (The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting — Delivered by Newstex) This story was originally published by Grist. For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in Colorado to study the interactions between wildflowers and bumblebees.

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Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync

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Species (18)

Barbey's Larkspur

Nuttall's Larkspur

Larkspurs

native plants

Lepidoptera

Osmia

Megachile

Andrena

Andrenidae

Halictus virgatellus

solitary bees

Aquilegia coerulea

Apis mellifera

Linum lewisii

Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

Bombyliidae

Iridoprocne bicolor

Geum triflorum