Flowers give microbes, according to ScienceDaily 6 September 2016 and Microbial Ecology 2016; doi: 10.1007/s00248-016-0838-1. Scientists in USA have found that flowers not only provide bees with nectar and pollen, they are also a “hot spot of transmission of bacteria that end up in the microbiome of wild bees”. Picking up germs from flowers may […]
