Posted on February 22, 2018 by southernipmcenter
Researchers at NC State University recently published a paper about wild bee abundance in relationship to urban warming.
The paper challenges the idea that planting more flowers will attract more pollinators. Although the number of larger bees do increase as flower populations increase, populations of small bees tend to decline at some of the hottest sites. Continue reading →
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Posted on June 27, 2017 by southernipmcenter
by Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University
A new study from North Carolina State University finds that common wild bee species decline as urban temperatures increase.
“We looked at 15 of the most common bee species in southeastern cities and – through fieldwork and labwork – found that increasing temperatures in urban heat islands will have a negative effect on almost all of them,” says Steve Frank, an associate professor of entomology at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work. Continue reading →
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