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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United Kingdom

Japan

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Geum triflorum

Linum lewisii

Aquilegia

Delphinium

Bombus

Tachycineta bicolor

Rangifer tarandus

Apis mellifera

Delphinium nuttallianum