CLIMATE EMERGENCY BAD FOR (SOME) BEES

Some like it hot? In our rapidly heating world, larger bees, like Bumbles or wax making cavity dwellers (like Honeybees) are suffering because they are more temperature intolerant.

Scientists in the US trapped and studied more than 20,000 bees in the Rocky Mountains, over an eight years period, and found changes in species type over time. The numbers of temperature impacted species fell while burrowing ground living solitary bees, whose habits offer some respite from the heat, had actually increased in number.

Guardian 21/4/22

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