Flower Declines Shrink Bee Tongues (9 of 11) (IMAGE)

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Flower Declines Shrink Bee Tongues (9 of 11)

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Bumble bee, Bombus nevadensis, is foraging for nectar from alpine Penstemon flowers. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 25, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by N.E. Miller-Struttmann at SUNY College at Old Westbury in Old Westbury, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Functional mismatch in a bumble bee pollination mutualism under climate change."

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Candace Galen

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