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The flower’s pollen works like a medicine for bumblebees afflicted with a nasty parasite. Bumblebees and other pollinators face many threats, including pesticide exposure, climate change, habitat loss due to agriculture and development, and pathogens that ravage multiple species. But a recent …
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