An article about Bumblebees
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bumble bees by plants to make them flower early. Surprising scientists Bumble bees aren't merely bumbling around our gardens. They're actively assessing the plant's determining which flowers have the most nectar and pollen and leaving behind scent marks that tell them which blooms they've already visited. Now a new study reveals that bumble bees force plants to flower by making tiny incisions in their leaves, a discovery that has stunned be scientists. Wow was my first reaction, says Neil Williams, a B biologist at the University of California, Davis. Then I wanted How did we miss this? How could no one have seen it before? Concierto de Moraes, a chemical Ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, had the same reaction when one of her students for teeny Pasha Lido, noticed buff tailed bumblebees making tiny incisions in the leaves off their greenhouse plants. The insects didn't seem to be carrying off the bits of leaves to their nests or ingesting them. Suspected the bees were inducing the plants to flower, the team set up a series of experiments. The results show that went pollen sources are scarce, such as in a greenhouse or during early spring bumble bees can force plants to bloom up to a month earlier than usual. The research is promising for two reasons. For one, it strongly suggests bumble bees manipulate flowers, a particularly useful skill as woman temperatures worldwide are causing the pollinators to emerge before plants have glued. The insects depends nearly exclusively on pollen for food, for themselves, and they love a in the early spring.