Red mason bee-bumblebee queen conflict

This 20 April 2018 video shows a conflict at a daffodil flower between a male red mason bee and a large earth bumblebee queen.

Joost Borsboom in the Netherlands made this video.

Researchers found that environmental threats are piling onto the stress faced by nest-building bumblebee queens: here.

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