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Planning for spring’s garden? Bees like variety and don’t care about your neighbors’ yards

  • Written by Laura Russo, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
imageIf you plant it, they will come.Zbych/iStock via Getty Images Plus

In order to reproduce, most flowering plants rely on animals to move their pollen. In turn, pollinators rely on flowers for food, including both nectar and pollen. If you’re a gardener, you might want to support this partnership by planting flowers. But if you live in an area...

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