Bumblebees in decline as climate change worsens

The cascading impacts from the world’s climate crisis could result in fewer bumblebees and more small-bodied bees

Tracking more than 20-thousand bees over a period of eight years, a new study was designed to work out just how different species react to changing weather patterns.

Larger-bodied bees tend to decline in numbers when temperatures increase, while populations of smaller bees increase.

It is one of the first indications that “climate-induced changes may drastically reshape bee communities”.

Bumblebees are “the most threatened under climate warming than any other on our earth”.

Researchers warn these declining numbers may have significant negative effects on the functioning of the ecosystem as we know it.