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Caring for Pollinators - Bundesamt für Naturschutz

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Roubik Small bees have a big job<br />

Workers of Apis florea visit the flowers of aquatic ‘lilies’ even in the<br />

dense urban settlement of Bangkok, Thailand. They have survived<br />

human landscapes.<br />

<strong>Pollinators</strong> to the<br />

rescue!<br />

Female Xylocopa latipes on the wing, one of the most common and<br />

powerful pollinators in Asia, prepares to ‘stop and shop’ <strong>for</strong> pollen at<br />

a flower of the melastome, Melastoma affinis in S. China.<br />

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