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Follow the links below for news coverage and commentaries on some of our recent papers.

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Videos

In the first episode of this series, David Attenborough presents the fascinating phenomenon of buzz pollination. It was great to help with the preparation and development of this segment and to see Attenborough showing how our buzz-pollinated Solanum are buzzed by bumblebees.

Buzz pollination

BBC_Countryfile_2018 from Mario Vallejo Marin on Vimeo.

New flower of Shetland

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Commentary

The first flower. Originally posted in The Conversation.

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Expeditions

 The Sunday Times: Alaska trip to find elusive flower

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Hybridisation

       IFLS: Hybrid species are on the march

BBC News: New Shetland monkeyflower

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Buzz-Pollination

Science. Head-banging bumble bees bite flowers to shake loose more pollen. 29 August 2024

    BBC: The One Show. Buzz pollination. Shown on 20 February 2017. Watch it in Vimeo

National Geographic: The curious case of the bumblebee, the virus and the tomato

 Wired Magazine: Bees are great at pollinating flowers

 The Economist: There is Music in the Humming of Bees

  The New York Times:  Unraveling the Pollinating Secrets of a Bee’s Buzz

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Plant Speciation

Conservation. The monkey-flower has two faces.

 BBC Radio Scotland. Newsdrive. Broadcasted on 7 May 2015. Mimulus peregrinus: Origin of species is a repeatable phenomenon.

 BBC: What the World’s Youngest Species Can Teach Us

 Scientific American: Make Room for a New Bloom: New Flower Discovered

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Nectar Robbing and Bee Handedness

The Economist: Bad Behaviour. The Strange Case of the Bandit Bumblebees

Pollination

New Hampshire Public Radio. Outside/In.

https://www.nhpr.org/post/ask-sam-whats-these-tumbleweeds-oak-tassels