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The importance of bumblebees
Bumblebees are essential for pollinating short-lived early spring wildflowers by tolerating cool temperatures and accessing deep nectar, ensuring these plants reproduce successfully.
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The importance of bumblebees
After a long bleak winter, it is wonderful to see wildflowers in the spring, foretelling of warmer weather and the return of color to the forest. The earliest wildflowers bloom, such as Hepatica, Trout-lily, Bloodroot, Spring-beauty, Toothwort, Mayapple, and Trillium, are called “ephemerals”, meaning “lives for a day”. They all bloom for a very short period when it’s still cool weather. And because they are strictly insect pollinated this could …
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