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Why Are These Bees Stabbing Plants? Our research has recently been featured in the external pageSciShow. The American Youtube channel, hosted by Hank Green, amassed over six million subscribers with the recent show being watched by more than 123’000 users.

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Humans know a lot about bees, seeing as they impact both our ecology and our economy. But there's something about bumble bees that we totally missed until recently; a super weird and mysterious behavior that might give them a leg up in weathering climate change. (25 July 2020)


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Our paper “Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce” achieved an unusually high level of attention in the media. The research of Foteini Pashalidou, Harriet Lambert, Thomas Peybernes, Mark Mescher and Consuelo De Moraes was covered in the external pageScientific American, external pageBBC News, external pageScience Now, external pageNews Scientist, external pageScience News, external pageFuturity, external pageAdvanced Science News and about 50 other high-reach publications. (3 June, 2020)


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