Pollinators puzzle to find flowers amidst natural and human fumes

Mongabay
By Brittany StewartDec 9, 2014, 11:53 am99 pts
While unpleasant car exhaust makes us wrinkle our noses, such human-made fumes may pose serious problems to insects searching for nectar. Researchers recently revealed that background odors make finding flowers difficult for pollinators. The study, published in Science, measured how hawk moths (Manduca sexta)…

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