https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite-plants-to-force-them-to-flower-seriously/ •••May 21, 2020 - Bumblebees are a resourceful bunch: when pollen is scarce and plants near the nest are not yet flowering, workers have developed a way to force them to bloom. Research published on Thursday in Science shows that the insects puncture the plants’ leaves, which causes them to flower, on average, 30 days earlier than they otherwise would... https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6493/881 #Nature #Science