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Flowers pollinated by honeybees make lower-quality seeds

Researchers have found that honeybees pollinate flowers with fewer and lower-quality seeds than other pollinators. This could be due to honeybees spending more time buzzing between flowers of the same plant, resulting in more inbred seeds. The study, conducted by ecologists Joshua Kohn and Dillon Travis, found that honeybees visited twice as many flowers on one plant before moving to the next than the average of other pollinators.