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Plants are flowering a month earlier – here’s what it could mean for pollinating insects

Rusana Krasteva / shutterstock Chris Wyver, University of Reading and Laura Reeves, University of Reading Plants are flowering about a month earlier in the UK due to climate change. That’s according to scientists at the University of Cambridge, who recently analysed the first flowering dates of 406 species and found a link to warmer temperatures in spring. The researchers compared …