“Unlike honeybees in North America, which have been brought over from Europe and kept in these colonies, bumblebees are native and evolved with these plants," Soroye said. ADThey found that nearly half of all regions in North America where bumblebees had been recorded in the earlier period no longer registered bees in the later period. Franklin’s bumblebee is a species once found in a narrow region where California and Oregon meet. This isn’t the first case in which insect declines have been pinned on worsening heat and therefore climate change. ADGranted, for bumblebees, it is not as though climate warming is the only danger.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2020 19:02 UTC