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Honey bees find food more easily in cities, thanks to abundant urban gardens

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Mongabay (India)

Publication Date
2021-11-15

Despite living in a concrete jungle, London’s urban bees fly shorter distances to feast on nectar-rich flowers than their neighbors in the countryside—a counterintuitive discovery explained by the many lush gardens in the city, researchers reported recently in the Journal of Applied Ecology.

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https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/honey-bees-find-food-more-easily-in-cities-thanks-to-abundant-urban-gardens/