Climate change: Climate change leads to concern about honey bees!

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Changes in the life cycle and behaviour of honey bees are seen as indicators of damage to the environment. Bess collect pollen and honey in a garden in Visakhapatnam. Photo: K.R. Deepak - The Hindu.

Global warming has led to many plants blooming ever earlier and also before honey bees emerge from hibernation, leading to fears of a long-term decline in pollination.

A combined research group centred at Munich’s Technical University (TU) has carried out a study into how bees are dealing with the change in global temperatures.

“We have increasingly noticed an ever growing difference between temperature and flight activity,” said bee expert Juergen Tautz from Wuerzburg University.

Research has shown that the European spring is being pushed forward by 2.5 days every 10 years but it is still not known how exactly the earlier rise in temperatures is affecting the behaviour of bees.

TU doctorate student Raimund Henneken has been investigating how bees are reacting to the higher temperatures. “Bees are directly affected by ambient temperatures and indirectly dependent on climate and the flowering of plants,” he said.

This is only a tip of the iceberg: the disastrous Eco-Imbalance that has been taking place across the Nature!

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