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  • Bumblebees have a peculiar ability to make plants flower. (Volodymyr, Wikimedia Commons)
    Bumblebees and Flowering Plants
    Victoria Clare
    Scientists think that bumblebees can speed up flowering in plants. They go the idea when doing a different experiment and noticing bumblebees using their mouths to pinch the leaves of plants that hadn't flowered yet.