With shorter tongues the bees are not as efficient, and now that they visit many kinds
of flowers, the pollen they transfer to the long - tubed
flowers may not always be the
right type.
I've always tended to think I was a fairly progressive sort
of chap who likes to discuss things like climate change and goes through life trying things out, but apparently I'm a really a defensive, emotional
type who, on the one hand happily embraces various lords and
right - wing thinktanks, but on the other is a sensitive
flower, constantly attuned to aversive aspects
of my environment.