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Wild Pollinators Crucial For Food Crops (4 of 12)

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Wild Pollinators Crucial For Food Crops (4 of 12)

image: Oil-collenting Centris bees are effective pollinators of acerola flowers. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 28, 2013, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Lucas Garibaldi at Universidad Nacional de Río Negro in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, and colleagues was titled, “Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance.” view more 

Credit: [Photo by Breno M. Freitas]


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