Paddleboarding for pollen is all in a day's work for NC State Department of Applied Ecology grad student April Sharp. 🤿🐝 Sharp is studying how certain pollen diets can impact bee health. Her hypothesis centers around whether the interaction between spiky-shaped pollen and a bee's gut helps reduce infection of the damaging parasite Crithidia bombi. Sharp and the research team are paddleboarding on Yates Millpond to collect flowers with that spiky-shaped pollen for testing. Learn more about the research: http://ncst.at/BbVh50UcV4J
