Claim · #6492453
Bombus terrestris · pollination · Borago officinalis
pollination · effect: beneficial
pollinates GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Sixty-three per cent of pollen foragers at colonies next to the borage field collected borage pollen”
- Authors
- Goulson D.
- Year
- 2010
- Publication
- Oxford University Press
- Page
- 93
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Bombus terrestris is a well-documented pollinator of Borago officinalis; the 63% forager statistic from a UK field study directly supports the high-magnitude, beneficial pollination interaction.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Bombus terrestris is a well-documented generalist pollinator; foraging on Borago officinalis is biologically consistent, and source quote directly supports the 63% pollen-forager statistic.”
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