Source: Liz Schlemmer, WUNC, 7/3/17


Global warming and urbanization are threatening bee populations across the country. One factor in that threat is heat. At high temperatures, bees become unable to reproduce, fly or even walk. So researchers from North Carolina State University recently set out to see just how much heat local wild bees could handle. Steve Frank, associate professor of entomology at NC State University, tested 15 species of the most common wild bee species that ...

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