First radio tracking of tropical orchid bees
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 07:16
in Biology & Nature
Blue-green orchid bees zip through increasingly scarce patches of tropical forest pollinating rare flowers. For the first time, researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute track unique signals from tiny transmitters glued to individual orchid bees, yielding new insight into the role of bees in tropical forest ecosystems...
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