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Climate's effects on flowers critical for bees — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Climate's effects on flowers critical for bees

Date: October 3, 2017

Two-form Bumble Bee Bumble Bees Buff-tailed Bumble Bee Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Golden-belted Bumble Bee Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus appositus Bombus occidentalis Bombus frigidus Bombus fervidus Bombus californicus Bombus nevadensis

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In a study that shows the importance of climate change on critical pollinators, North Carolina State University researchers in the United States found that earlier and longer flowering seasons can have poor effects on the bees that rely on these flowers to live and thrive. 'We wanted to understand h

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Two-form Bumble Bee

Bumble Bees

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee

Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee

Golden-belted Bumble Bee

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Bombus appositus

Bombus occidentalis

Bombus frigidus

Bombus fervidus

Bombus californicus

Bombus nevadensis

Bombus mixtus

Bombus rufocinctus

Bombus hypocrita