Even in the face of vast fields of flowers, local bumblebees may face the sting of competition when people bring their honeybees to the floral feast.
When beekeepers truck their hives to a mass-blossoming event in upland Ireland to forage for nectar, local wild bees end up smaller than usual and focus on foraging for their young, researchers report December 10 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. This could mean they’ve been bumped over by the human-raised bees, potentially stressing an important pollinator.
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