Prairie strips for pollinators (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Prairie strips for pollinators

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Ecologists worried that creating narrow strips of pollinator habitat abutting agricultural fields might serve as an “ecological trap” for bees, drawing them in to forage on the flowers only to kill them with pesticides. A new study finds that high-quality floral resources boost honey bee resilience against pesticide exposures and infection with a deadly virus.

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Photos by Iowa State University, left, and Lynn Betts, right

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