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Mammoth news: Bees help plants

What! That’s news?? Surely everybody knows that many plants are pollinated by bees? Hopefully, yes, but this item is not about that well-known plant-insect association. OK, but does it feature mammoths? No, but it does...

Image: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen. Gera-Untermhaus, 1897.

Yes, but WHY?

On a related ‘down-under’ theme to my previous posting re scarecrows(!), I pose this question: Just because we can, does that mean we should? After all, they do say that the devil makes work for idle hands. Well...