<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.25em 0px 0px; color: rgb(14, 15, 25);"><span style="background-color: rgb(251, 250, 246);">Bumblebees are extremely efficient pollinators,\u201d says U.S. Forest Service research ecologist <a href="https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/staff/819" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/staff/819&source=gmail&ust=1770481826722000&usg=AOvVaw1l8WrFDXvXyEl441sg3D7q" style="color: rgb(0, 148, 76); box-sizing: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(251, 250, 246), rgb(251, 250, 246)), linear-gradient(rgb(251, 250, 246), rgb(251, 250, 246)), linear-gradient(rgb(236, 182, 46), rgb(236, 182, 46)); background-size: 0.05em 1px, 0.05em 1px, 1px 1px; text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 95%, 100% 95%, 0px 90%; background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, repeat-x;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Joseph O\u2019Brien</span></a>. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">\u201cIn the time it takes a honeybee to pollinate a single blueberry flower, a bumblebee can pollinate as many as six.\u201d</span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.25em 0px 0px; color: rgb(14, 15, 25);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">Wild bumblebees \u2013 and there are 46 native bumblebee species \u2013 pollinate for free. But farmers often rent honeybees.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(251, 250, 246);"> </span></p><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a href="https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/compass/2017/05/09/bumblebees-and-blueberries/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/compass/2017/05/09/bumblebees-and-blueberries/&source=gmail&ust=1770481826722000&usg=AOvVaw0g0vNfzHTp8Vkxe9KFxPnI" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/co<wbr>mpass/2017/05/09/bumblebees-an<wbr>d-blueberries/</a></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font color="#ff2600"><b>-----------------------------------------------------------</b></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><table style="font-variant-caps: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(228, 228, 228);"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 18px 0px 12px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(228, 228, 228);"><div style="padding: 2px 0px 8px;"><table style="font-variant-caps: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(228, 228, 228);"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 18px 0px 12px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(228, 228, 228);"><span style="padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.science.org/content/article/when-honey-bees-disappeared-small-italian-island-wild-bees-feasted&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCioUMTI4NjUxMzExMjQ5MjQ0NDAxODEyGjJmNTVkYmYwNWFiN2RmOWM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1ynkvauzTyeGYwQl_Uo-Bt" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?rct%3Dj%26sa%3Dt%26url%3Dhttps://www.science.org/content/article/when-honey-bees-disappeared-small-italian-island-wild-bees-feasted%26ct%3Dga%26cd%3DCAEYCioUMTI4NjUxMzExMjQ5MjQ0NDAxODEyGjJmNTVkYmYwNWFiN2RmOWM6Y29tOmVuOlVT%26usg%3DAOvVaw1ynkvauzTyeGYwQl_Uo-Bt&source=gmail&ust=1770481826727000&usg=AOvVaw12tXmEvZnNLHZh9GT-9HMi" style="color: rgb(66, 127, 237); display: inline; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">When honey bees 'disappeared' on this small Italian island, wild bees feasted | Science</a></span><div><div style="padding: 2px 0px 8px;"><div style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-size: 12px;"><a style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">Science</a></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div>
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