Are beautiful roadside medians actually ecological traps for pollinators?
In short: Urban planners are redesigning road medians to create healthy habitats for pollinators. While these landscapes attract many insects, they may also be luring them toward fatal accidents.
As cities work to transform roadside areas into productive habitats, a potential conflict has emerged between habitat creation and insect safety. While pollinating insects are drawn to these new roadside landscapes, the proximity to traffic may lead to high mortality rates through collisions.
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