Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 6/29/18


Cities are filled with buildings, people and concrete — usually not seen as the ideal place for anything wild but nightlife.
But then there are the bumblebees of London. They may be faring better than their relatives in the English countryside, suggests a study published Tuesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. “We’re not saying from this that urban areas are the solution to bumblebee declines or that urban areas are the ideal habitat,” said Ash Samuelson, a graduate student at Royal Holloway University of London in Britain and lead author of the study. 

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