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WILDFLOWER SEASON LENGTHENS BY MORE THAN A MONTH — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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WILDFLOWER SEASON LENGTHENS BY MORE THAN A MONTH

By: States News Service Dateline: COLLEGE PARK, Md.

Date: March 17, 2014

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

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The following information was released by the University of Maryland - College Park: A unique 39-year study of wildflower blooms in a Colorado Rocky Mountain meadow shows more than two-thirds of alpine flowers have changed their blooming pattern in response to climate change. Not only are half the f

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Two-form Bumble Bee

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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

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migratory birds

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