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Pollen turns bumblebees into jumbo jets
Flying bumblebees trade off fighter-jet-like manoeuvrability for jumbo-jet-like stability when they shift their load from nectar to pollen, researchers have found. The findings, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are among the first to show how nectar and pollen affects the flight dynamics of bumblebees.
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Very cool, I was wondering if how bumble bee colonies work and read that they sometimes have as few as 50 members.
One of my favorite bees..Nice info.