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Claire Therese Hemingway

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Cultivating for color: The hidden trade-offs between garden aesthetics and pollinator preferences

Cultivating for color: The hidden trade-offs between garden aesthetics and pollinator preferences

Uniquely colored flowers with big blooms might make for an aesthetically pleasing garden, but they can be unhelpful to pollinators. Careful...

18.08.2025 20

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Claire Therese Hemingway

Bees have irrational biases when choosing which flowers to feed on − just like human shoppers do

Just like people confronted with a sea of options at the grocery store, bees foraging in meadows encounter many different flowers at once. They...

26.09.2024 1

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Claire Therese Hemingway