Ecological Entomology<\/em><\/a>, also suspects that\u00a0the numbers of dead bumblebees might ultimately be because lime trees attract so many of them.<\/p>\n\u201cA relatively small proportion of the bumblebees in the tree crown\u00a0die,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
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