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Brooke Zanco, Postdoctoral Researcher, The Pollinator Futures Research Centre, Macquarie University

Most bees are solitary and don’t live in hives. Climate change risks them starving

Native green-and-gold nomia bee (_Lipotriches australica_). Kerri-Lee Harris/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC

When we think of bees, we often think of flowers. The more flowers the better, right? Well, not exactly. Like us, bees need to consume specific nutrients in suitable amounts and combinations.

So, the mere presence of flowers doesn’t necessarily mean the bees are getting nutritionally adequate food.

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