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It also attracts hummingbirds and beneficial insects. Bee balm prefers moist, well-drained soil in full sun. It will grow in partial shade but spread out and produce fewer flowers. Bee balm is ...

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Hummingbird flower mites use static electricity to hop between flowers. Researchers initially thought scent guided them.

A trio of biologists from the University of Connecticut; the Organization for Tropical Studies, in Costa Rica; and the ...

We hypothesize that flower mites may use the electrostatic attraction between the mite and the hummingbird’s beak to aid transportation. Here a flower mite is attracted to an electrode charged ...

Tiny mites seem capable of relying on the power of static cling to hop into hummingbird nostrils and move between flowers. By Douglas Main Flower mites spend their lives slurping nectar and ...

said the findings are an early step in better understanding how hummingbirds use their energy during migration and how that might be impacted by changes to the flowers they depend on for food.

Aim-listed gold miner Hummingbird Resources’ subsidiary in Mali has reached an agreement with that country’s government regarding operational parameters for the Yanfolila gold mine.