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PhD Student in #Biocommunication @ETH investigating how volatile cues mediate plant-pollinator interactions Evolution | Ecology | Bumblebees
May 21, 2020 17 tweets 10 min read
Thrilled to have my first paper published in @ScienceMagazine today. Thanks to my amazing co-author @foteini_pas!

We show how #Bumblebees make plants flower earlier - bumblebees are gardening!

A thread 1/17 👇

Paper: science.sciencemag.org/content/368/64…

@ETH_en & @usys_ethzh 2/17 #Bumblebees are excellent pollinators for many fruits and vegetables.

Unlike honey bees, bumblebees do not have a permanent colony. In autumn, each colony dies and only the young, mated queens hibernate, ready for spring when they start a new nest.