Natasha de Vere 🇪🇺 Profile picture
Biodiversity, plants & pollinators. Associate Prof & Curator of Botany, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.
Jan 14, 2021 10 tweets 5 min read
Honeybee historians - track changes in the UK floral landscape over the last 65 years, showing key changes in nectar resources. New paper in @CommsBio by the Science Team @walesbotanic @Zwickynova @abigailjayne26 go.nature.com/3icl2sR We analysed 441 honey samples from throughout the UK using DNA metabarcoding to find out which plants honeybees use to make honey. We compared this to a survey of honey samples carried out in 1952.