https://www.brightonhoney.com Raw natural local honey Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:18:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.brightonhoney.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-brighton-honey-favicon-32x32.png https://www.brightonhoney.com 32 32 175839486 https://www.brightonhoney.com/beekeeping-disrupted-plant-pollinator-relationship/ https://www.brightonhoney.com/beekeeping-disrupted-plant-pollinator-relationship/#respond Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:18:13 +0000 http://www.brightonhoney.com/?p=1449 Plants and insects have been evolving in unison for millions of years and have benefited from an elegant symbiotic relationship. This relationship has provided plants a willing host to convey pollen in trade for valuable high energy cocktail called nectar. Residual pollen is an added bonus protein source. A new dynamic is disrupting the alignment of this interaction. Climate change is affecting this coordinated inter species relationship by disrupting the flower blooming cycle. Plants have evolved a response to the spring warming cycle that starts the flowering process in most of the northern hemisphere.]]> https://www.brightonhoney.com/beekeeping-disrupted-plant-pollinator-relationship/feed/ 0 1449