Tufts University
Take a walk in the summer, and if there are flowers in the neighborhood, you’ll probably see bees, busy buzzing around collecting pollen. We usually think of honey bees and bumble bees doing the pollinating, but look more closely: There are green bees, big bees, small bees-and other pollinators like butterflies and hover flies, too.
In fact, nearly 400 species of bees appear in Massachusetts alone, says Nick Dorian, A16, AG23, a graduate student in biology doing Ph.D. research on native bees. Dorian helped found the Tufts Pollinator Initiative, which seeks to educate the public about the benefits of these insects-and how we can help them.
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