Hartford Courant cites UMaine as collaborator in bee study
The University of Maine was listed as a collaborator in a Hartford Courant article about a Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station study that revealed bees collect pollen more often from weeds than they do from decorative flowers and plants. “Perhaps the lesson to be learned is that honeybees have a much wider range of flowers they enjoy than we humans do,” said Kimberly Stoner, senior author of the study. Connecticut, like much of the rest of North America, suffers large-scale die-offs of honeybees. Bees play a critical role in pollinating all kinds of crops and plants, according to the article.