Bumblebees warm up carrying pollen, raising climate change questions – study
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Getting warmer from carrying pollen could put bumblebees in the range of those stressful, critically hot temperatures Malia Naumchik, lead author According to the new research, after accounting for environmental temperature and body size, the body temperature of bumblebees carrying pollen was significantly hotter than the temperature of bees that were empty-legged. Malia Naumchik, a former applied ecology minor undergraduate and lead author of the study, said: “Getting warmer from carrying pollen could put bumblebees in the range of those stressful, critically hot temperatures. We need to know how bumblebees may change their behaviour, to better understand how this could affect how much pollen they collect and how much pollination they perform during hot days Professor Elsa Youngsteadt, research supervisor “This has important implications for bumblebees and climate change. Elsa Youngsteadt, a professor in applied ecology and supervisor of the research, said: “We need to know how bumblebees may change their behaviour, to better understand how this could affect how much pollen they collect and how much pollination they perform during hot days.
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