Step aside bees, the ants are pollinating

Step aside bees, the ants are pollinating

When you think pollination you typically don’t think ants, and with good reason. Ant pollinators are thought to be extremely rare.

Researchers have now discovered, however, that flowering smokebush Conospermum plants in Australia’s southwest have evolved to enable ants to pollinate them as effectively as native bees

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Published by Cosmos.

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