Thursday, February 6, 2020

Hotter heat waves are wiping out bumblebees, study finds

Bombus impatiens

Many bumblebee species have vanished from places where they were once common. Now a new Canadian-led study finds that hotter temperatures during heat waves are to blame, and uses it to predict which bumblebees are most likely to face local extinction as the climate warms.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bumble-bee-heat-waves-1.5453156?cmp=rss

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