Px3 @px3_pollinators

We are Pollinators Prospering People, an emerging Maryland-based non-profit dedicated to proliferating pollinator corridors in the region. Maryland, USA Joined August 2015

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Px3 @px3_pollinators

5 years ago

"Experts say honey bees are dealing with many stressors: chemicals, loss of wildflowers, climate change, nutrition and viruses. But this year, a special problem might have taken down the honey bees more than usual." npr.org/sections/thesa…

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5 years ago

"Insects may influence plant development via pollination, galling, and a range of herbivorous interactions, including florivory." nature.com/articles/s4159…

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5 years ago

See where hummingbirds are along the 2019 migration and contribute information on the ones you have seen! hummingbird-guide.com/hummingbird-mi…

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5 years ago

The blue beauty with an impressive coat of fuzz australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura…

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5 years ago

Watch this shy plant engage in some ‘self-love’ when it can’t find any pollinators sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/w…

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5 years ago

"The conflict of interest between a plant’s production of pollen for the purpose of reproduction and efficient pollen collection by bees to provide protein for their larvae, the “pollen dilemma”, underlies many plant-pollinator adaptations" nature.com/articles/s4159…

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5 years ago

Your observations can be used to help pollinators! medium.com/@USFWS/help-bu…

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5 years ago

How do honey bees stay clustered together out in the elements? facebook.com/PollinatorsPro…

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5 years ago

California's super bloom can be seen by satellites. kqed.org/science/193942…

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5 years ago

PX3 now has a blog! Check in at px3-pollinators.com/blog to read interesting stories and articles! px3-pollinators.com/blog

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5 years ago

"Here, we studied the flower visitation rates, seed production, pollen limitation and flower morphological characters of Gentiana dahurica at 3 populations along an urban-peri-urban gradient around Xi’ning over 4 consecutive... nature.com/articles/s4159…

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5 years ago

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5 years ago

Even plants can get in on the fun of April Fools’ Day! thoughtco.com/tricks-plants-…

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5 years ago

"An analysis led by the Xerces Society, and coordinated with the IUCN North American Bumble Bee Specialist Group, indicates that more than one-quarter of North American bumble bees are facing some degree of extinction risk." xerces.org/at-risk-bumble…

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5 years ago

Hummingbirds Are Where Intuition Goes to Die theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

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5 years ago

"Buzz pollination is an unlikely evolutionary strategy, because the plants are banking on bees working extra hard for a modest reward." npr.org/sections/thesa…

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5 years ago

"Without the midges, there would be no chocolate!" nps.gov/articles/choco…

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5 years ago

"But what goes on inside a pupa? We know that a larva releases enzymes that break down many of its tissues into their constituent proteins. Textbooks will commonly talk about the insect dissolving into a kind of “soup”, but that’s not entirely accurate." nationalgeographic.com/science/phenom…

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5 years ago

"The pollen that had fallen or rubbed off of the bee was used for DNA analysis to find out which flowers they had visited." theconversation.com/city-bees-favo…