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Worth a Read: Beautiful Flowers that Bees Can’t Use

Posted Vonda on Feb. 23, 2023, 9:24 a.m.

Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230222-the-beautiful-flowers-that-bees-cant-use

This piece describes the benefits of using native plants and explains why the big showy flowers developed by the horticultural industry may be useless to bees and the ecosystem.

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