PhD researcher Chris Wyver, of the University of Reading's School of Agriculture
Posted on 07/11/2023 6:40:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
British bees are ‘waking up’ early due to climate change and emerging from their nests at the wrong time, which could threaten the pollination of crucial crops.
The research, the largest of its kind in the UK, found that for every one degree Celsius rise in temperature caused by climate change, wild bees, such as bumblebees, emerge from their nests 6.5 days earlier on average.
The researchers warn that this may mean that bees lose sync with the plants on which they depend, meaning there may be less food for them to consume.
This means bees may not have the energy to pollinate crops effectively or may miss the blossom completely.
PhD researcher Chris Wyver, of the University of Reading's School of Agriculture, said: "Rising temperatures are making life tougher for bees.
"Warmer conditions mean bees emerge from hibernation earlier, but there may not be enough food to provide energy for them when they start buzzing about."
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PhD researcher Chris Wyver, of the University of Reading's School of Agriculture
Or it could not.
Honey bees are a European import.
I wake up earlier, too, I’ve noticed.
I Googled it.
It’s called summer.
“Disaster”? Ho hum. Dooooomed again.
Follow the money. The “grant” for these studies all come from the “green people.” They aren’t scientists, they are whores.
The last time I read about bees, hives were collapsing, and bees couldn’t be found anywhere. Pollination was doomed, not to mention honey production. That was about ten years ago.
Maybe we should just take the thermometers out of the bee hives and replace them with ones that don’t show readins down to .01C.
Oh, good grief! The left is so desperate to convince us that they have above two digit IQs that required daily climate fear porn has reached CNN levels of idiocy. This article deserves nothing more than printing out and placing below the kitty litter to make sure it doesn’t spread.
“Warmer conditions mean bees emerge from hibernation earlier, but there may not be enough food to provide energy for them when they start buzzing about.”
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Ummm, why wouldn’t the alleged climate change make flowers wake up earlier, too?
Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding, economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money? No, not poor me
Well the trees haven’t noticed any climate change the leaves come out and drop off at the same time every year
I've done all the above and have lots of bees on my lawn. The Township zoning nazi sent one of his little henchmen out to harass me last year and I got so mad that I went to the township meeting to make my case.
As luck would have it, another group of people in the township came to the same meeting to make their case that the Township zoning nazi was ignoring drug dealers setting up shop in an abandoned garage in their neighborhood.
They made a bunch of excuses and I spoke out that they were too busy to deal with problems like that because they were too busy dealing with petty complaints like mine.
I wasn't trying to get the nazi fired, I was just trying to get left alone. But one of the friendly township supervisors informed me a few months later that said nazi was no longer working for the township.
More convenient support for “The Message”, masquerading as “research”. Most high temperature records around the globe were set around a century ago. Did the bees wake up early then, too?
I’m not a gambler, but I’ll bet a nickel that the bees (and the plants) figure it out.
Have bees never experience weather before?
Absurd. Bees can’t spell.
If it is warmer the plants will wake up earlier too.
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